Date:   7/10/2003 2:15:15 PM ( 21 y ago)
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I have not found a baptist school that I like in my area. I looked at a few, but they were either too large, or wanted too much money. I don't mind paying for a good education, but I won't pay too much for a good education when I can pay less for one that is just as good. I brought up the spirituality thing because to me that is more important than WHAT chruch one attends. I want my daughter to have a relationship with god. Notice I didn't capitalize the "g"? As a christian, I believe in ONE lord, our father. As a person of some education, I don't care what he/she/it is called. I am also not concerned with how one worships as long as it does not cause others harm. I have studied religions from all over the world, and none are RIGHT ON with what I see as the perfect one. My goal is to teach my daughter this same thing. If she takes to it great, and if she doesn't but rather chooses to settle with one organized religion, then I am okay too. I just want her to know that there is more than this, and that just because one is not exactly what she wants, it is no reason to discount it as useless. Even in our work/personal lives, if we come across someone or something that we may not like, but has information that is usefull, it can teach us something, or help us to see something in a different light, our dislike is no reason to push it aside. I call it RESPECT. I am not sure what everyone else calls it anymore. The older I get the more I fear the world my daughter will know when she is my age.
Where are the family values?
Where is the mutual respect?
Where is the common sense?
Where is love?
All of these things have changed in the past 10 years in ways that I would not have thought possible.
I just hope I can tailor this some so that I don't try to live through my daughter. My single friends, who don't have children already tell me that I am too strict. My married friends just smile in awe when they hear my daughter say "yes sir," or "no sir".
How do you handle this? I would love to hear your ideas? and share in your expierence...
 

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