There’s this woman I know of, who has too many children. The unfortunate thing, however, is that despite the natural differences among them, she all expects them to perform and master new skills on demand: all at the same time, and at with same level of proficiency.
Physical, emotional, sexual abuse; what about intellectual abuse? Modern education begins in the medieval, when there was no respect for freedom of thought.
Despite my mildly Semitic last name, my paternal grandparents were Greek Orthodox immigrants from Syria (we have since moved up to become Lebanese parvenus). My father ‘got religion’ after had he established the family business and married my mother, and in his 30’s went to college and became an Episcopal priest. ‘Father Abraham’ no less. … [Read more…]