This week, the 3yo demonstrated that she knows how to open the child gate and the 1yo demonstrated that she can climb onto the kitchen table. In other words, nothing in our house is safe any longer.
How then should we live? We must trust ourselves wholly to that grace, confident that it has done for us what we cannot do: it has made human life new. We must let that grace train us, let it shape our lives so that we act in ways that are fitting and truthful.”
John Webster 2/2
“What kind of place is the world? It's the place in which God's grace has appeared; it's a world full of God's generosity. It isn't lost and unredeemed; it's the place where salvation and redemption are real and manifest, in which God is for us. 1/2
I’m on a different continent but 100% agree.
I just finished a book and am in the throes of the “do I buy a new book or read one (of the dozens) of the unread books on my shelf?” internal debate.
I guess I’ll head to the local bookstore to think it over.
My wife is back in her sourdough era and it’s currently raining focaccia.
Excellent insight on western individualism from Bobby Jamieson’s Everything is Never Enough
Do you think of weird phrases or quotes when spelling particular words? I think of Bruce Almighty whenever I'm spelling 'beautiful.' Every time.
Just make everyone mad and add end notes
This coheres well with what Nicholas Carr notes in his recent book, Superbloom. Efficiency marks our digital communication, reinforcing system 1 thinking and diminishing our ability to think deeply. It’s not, however, limited only to our digital engagement.
Several interesting chapters in this one!
The fact that Jason Isbell has a new album coming out next week is what I'm living on right now.
We at times have a humidifier going in one room and a dehumidifier in another. Feels like I’m doing something wrong, but it does help.
Check out the latest in my recommended OT commentary series: Dr. May Young weighs in on LAMENTATIONS!
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So much pressure.
Through Christ you can do all things.
Chris Hayes’ new book on the attention economy, The Siren’s Call, sounds very interesting, but I’m suspicious because he works for a news channel whose business model is to maintain our attention at all times. Perhaps I’m too cynical?
Having been covered in poison ivy before, I’d take my chances fighting a professional boxer.
We’re currently in that phase, but with berries. This week: strawberries out, raspberries in.
I guess you have similar chats with your teens then?
Me: what would you like for lunch?
2yo: lunch.
Me: you want lunch for lunch?
2yo: nope.
Now accepting applications for toddler translators.
Homemade pizza ft. copy cat recipe for Mellow Mushroom dough. Should have halved the dough (hence the mega-crust) but turned out great. Happy New Years 🎉
That’s why I ask:
How do these changes in parents/caregivers factor to teens’ existence in the Great Rewiring?
Mainly asking for the sake of my own parenting, but interested in hearing thoughts in general.
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A general sense from reading lit is, “youth are in trouble, but we dodged a bullet because we weren’t young when smart phones hit.” This misses the point. Attention spans, EQ, reading, interpersonal skills, and more have taken a hit, even if mental health in adults has not been as affected. 4
Even if you grew up without smart phones, enjoyed free play, and were free from the social pressure of today’s youth, you’re still being changed by smart phones today unless you’re taking purposeful measures to mitigate those effects. 3
While not pointing fingers at Haidt for not exploring my question more (it’s not the point of his book), many jeremiads of youth and tech fail to consider how tech affects older generations. We are shaping the next generations and have ourselves been shaped by smart phones. 2
Our 2yo toddler is accustomed to having some 'huddy' when she has a cough, but I was not prepared this morning when she asked for 'honey' for her cough.
It was entirely too early in the day for that gut punch.
I’ve read articles and chapters from Webster, but just read Holiness right before ETS/SBL and realized that I needed more.
Good. That’s what my heart told me, but I just needed validation.
