Author: Rachael Jankovic
Everywhere you go, people want to talk about your children. Why you shouldn’t have had them, how you could have prevented them, and why they would never do what you have done. They want to make sure you know that you won’t be smiling anymore when they are teenagers. All this at the grocery store, in line, while your children listen.
The truth is that years ago, before this generation of mothers was even born, our society decided where children rank in the list of important things... Children rank way below college. Below world travel for sure. Below the ability to go out at night at your leisure. Below honing your body at the gym. Below any job you may have or hope to get. In fact, children rate below your desire to sit around and pick your toes, if that is what you want to do. Below everything. Children are the last thing you should ever spend your time doing.
If you grew up in this culture, it is very hard to get a biblical perspective on motherhood...
Do we believe that we want children because there is some biological urge, or the phantom “baby itch”? Are we really in this because of cute little clothes and photo opportunities? Is motherhood a rock-bottom job for those who can’t do more, or those who are satisfied with drudgery? If so, what were we thinking?
Motherhood is not a hobby, it is a calling. You do not collect children because you find them cuter than stamps. It is not something to do if you can squeeze the time in. It is what God gave you time for.
Christian mothers carry their children in hostile territory. When you are in public with them, you are standing with, and defending, the objects of cultural dislike. You are publicly testifying that you value what God values, and that you refuse to value what the world values. You stand with the defenseless and in front of the needy. You represent everything that our culture hates, because you represent laying down your life for another—and laying down your life for another represents the gospel.
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Hurricane Update: No major damage to the house, a lot of fallen limbs and branches. Still without electricity and phones.
My best friend and I have been working like mad-women creating bits of intelligence and reading programs for our tiny children, Yes your baby can read! And wants to read! (Although this isn't the reading program or the point of this point) It has been soooooo much fun!!!! Time-consuming, but so much fun. I wish I had time to explain all the wonderful things I've learned from reading Glen Doman's books, and convince you that we haven't gone off the deep-end and become one of "those moms". But I'm working on finte time, the baby is sleeping. Suffice it to say, we're not crazy; well we're crazy about our kids, and husbands, and this amazing calling God has given us. But we're not crazy in the sense that we're trying to produce abnoxious, prideful, genusises; or feed our overachieving, homeschool-mom ego. We're on a mission, an experiment of sorts. We hope to write a book next year chronically our journey and how each of us have adopted the Doman method in our homes.
Here is a sneak peak of what we've been working on. Introducing...Bits of Intelligence.
Later I will explain Glenn Doman and his book How to Give Your Baby Encyclopedic Knowledge. We have also started a blog where we will house all of these "bits" for any mother and child who wants to use them. I can't wait to explain more!!
Life was still drumming peacefully along.
