Faith, Faith and Religion, Parenting

Should Yoga be Taught in BC Public Schools?

UPDATES: RESPONSES below added     The following is a real dialogue between a British Columbia parent who didn’t like the idea of their child doing yoga without their permission in what they thought was a secular school.  Note that the parent received no further communication after sending their time-consuming response below: Original Email written by Teacher to Parent Mrs.…

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Freedom and Privacy, Life Skills, Parenting, Technology

Question the Magic (QTM): Hello Barbie

Thanks to my usual homeboys for forwarding this one.  It’s simply…. MAGIC! HELLO BARBIE which costs a mere… oh…. HUNDRED BUCKS, will also, for that small fee, spy on your children (and you as a bonus) and report its findings to an unidentified source for not-fully-disclosed purposes. The Magic Your kid speaks to Barbie and Barbie comes back with one…

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Faith, Life Skills, Parenting

Overcoming the ‘spirit of christmas’ with the Spirit of Christ: Part 6 in a Series: Dealing With Pressure to Buy Gifts

If you haven’t been following the series, it started a while back now and the goal here is to shoot some ‘sacred cows’ and see if the foundation we are building on is solid, or one of ‘shaky foundations’. Here are some quick links to the series: Part 1: Roots Part 2: Tree vs Vine Part 3: Santa Part 4:…

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Faith, Parenting

Overcoming the ‘spirit of christmas’ with the Spirit of Christ: Part 5 in a Series: Practical Alternatives to Christmas traditions

If you haven’t been following this series, here is a quick link list to the previous articles so you can catch up: Part 1: The roots Part 2: Christmas tree versus Vine Part 3: Santa Part 4: To Pull your kid from school or not And that brings us to Part 5. We’ve established that there are good grounds to…

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Faith, Parenting

Overcoming the ‘spirit of christmas’ with the Spirit of Christ: Part 4 in a Series: To Pull Your Child from School or Not

Well, Christmas 2015 is now behind us.  Before it gets too far behind us, let’s keep this series going so that we are better prepared next year instead of the annual tradition of scrambling trying to figure out what position to take at the end of November or early December. Here is a quick link list to the previous parts…

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