Pro-life video of the day: Cynthia Tobias on coping with strong-willed children
by LauraLoo
If you have ever had a strong-willed child, then you know the determined look that says, “I’m not going to do it!” Author Cynthia Tobias offers a lifeline to weary parents with fresh advice from her latest book, You Can’t Make Me (But I Can be Persuaded).
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO8iQJizDmw[/youtube]
Here is the audio from Cynthia’s interview with In the Market’s host Janet Parschall.
Email dailyvid@jillstanek.com with your video suggestions.
[HT: WMBI - Moody Chicago]
Nov.26, 2012 12:00 pm |
Video of the day |
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Strong willed children?
Yeah. I have a couple of those. :)
Carla,
When do we stop being strong-willed children? SPACE SPACE :)
;)
Strong willed adults who believe in life(for ALL)liberty and pursuit of happiness?? My kinda folks!! :)
Oh…so I’m NOT the only one with a strong-willed child? ;)
Hardly.
The warriors of tomorrow.
I was in child-care for 23 years. Believe me..i KNOW I’m not the only one with a strong-willed child.
I just never thought that “I” would have one (LOL) !
Gee, how long did it take you to get through school then!? :-)
I’m not seeing ANY coverage on the American Association of Pediatrics trying to push Morning After Pills on girls under 17, Jill.
As you may know, Plan B Contraception, otherwise known as Morning after Pill can act as an abortifacient if taken after ovulation because it can cause an embryo to not implant in its’ mother’s uterus.
http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/remnant/2012/nov/26/remembering-ron-paul-changing-debate/
It says it doesn’t cause abortions BUT Texas Right to Life has something else to say on this topic.
http://www.texasrighttolife.com/a/761/Plan-B-is-an-abortion-pill
Oops. Wrong Article. Anwho go Ron Paul!
Here’s the slime that’s coming out of Liberal media, pushing abortifacient pills on innocent young girls. The AAP sickens me.
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/public_health/Emergency-contraception-for-teens-Plan-B.html
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/news/articles/2012/11/26/give-teens-access-to-emergency-contraception-pediatricians-say
http://www.boston.com/dailydose/2012/11/26/teen-girls-should-get-advance-prescription-for-morning-after-pill-pediatricians-recommend/UTtNb5HocfbmImGOQX2gAO/story.html
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-11-26/teens-need-contraception-prescriptions-in-hand-u-dot-s-dot-doctors-say
What do Pro Life teens do when prescribed Plan B?
And again, PLAN B IS An Abortion Pill.
Everyone wake up and stand against this.
The only Reason this is happening is because Obama won a second term!
http://www.texasrighttolife.com/a/761/Plan-B-is-an-abortion-pill
http://www.illinoisrighttolife.org/2007_2_PlanBunreliable.htm
http://missourilife.org/policies/contraceptives.html
http://www.coloradorighttolife.org/issues-policies/emergency-contraception-resource-sheet
http://www.grtl.org/?q=node/45
The Morning After Pill IS a form of abortion and people NEED to wake up. It is usually taken to prevent implantation as it is usually taken AFTER Ovulation and there is a chance there is a baby already conceived ready to slide down into its’ mother’s uterus .
This is an emergency update so you should all be informed.
Quoted directly from Missouri Right to Life
“Missouri Right to Life acknowledges the scientific reality that for humans produced by fertilization, the life of a human being begins at conception. Therefore, all drugs or devices that are intended to prevent implantation after conception occurs, or in any other way destroy human life, cause abortions. They are abortifacients. Some drugs, such as the so-called “morning after” pills (“Plan B”) do not act as abortifacients in every instance. Plan B in some instances prevents conception. If conception occurs despite taking Plan B, however, Plan B prevents implantation, and as a result, the new human being cannot obtain nutrition and dies. Because of this feature of Plan B, one never knows when it will act as an abortifacient. Anything that may act as an abortifacient at any time is wrong to use. Just like Russian roulette, it may kill at any time. Therefore, Missouri Right to Life opposes “Plan B” and any other drugs that may act like it.
The abortifacient known as mifepristone (brand name, “Mifeprex,” formerly known as “RU486”), is never taken as a “morning after” contraceptive pill, but is used several days after conception purely and simply as an abortifacient. It always acts, and is intended to act, by killing the child. Abortions by chemicals are just as lethal to unborn children as abortions by surgery. Missouri Right to Life opposes abortions that are done by any means.”
This just-in-case morning-after pill endorsement makes no sense to be coming from the average pediatrician.
I am sure this issue has been promoted by the drug companies. This is their voice.
As we read the rhetoric, we need to keep our common sense. And we need to think: OK, what is wrong with a pregnant teen? Seriously. Each of us has to spend time and answer why, at this professional level and societal level, “we” are so disturbed by pregnant teens.
I have my answer. You should formulate yours.
My opinion is that this is classism. We middle class people who do things the right way, and take care of ourselves and our families, don’t like having our society disturbed by the poor who don’t behave in the way we want them to – so we see them begging, and using food stamps, failing to get an education and be self-reliant.
we get upset because we have to carry the burden. Our tax dollars have to go to support the irresponsible lower class.
This is the problem with teen pregnancy.
In my family, there has been an unplanned teen pregnancy or two. No one under the sun cares because we have taken care of this mom and child.
Prototypically, the father is largely uninvolved.
no one beyond our family cares because we are taking care of our family.
But in the lower classes, lower than us in our middle class employed lives, pregnant teens bother us because we will have to pick up the slack. We will be taxed. We will have our charity support efforts at church, and we will see these irresponsible young people come to us asking for food and money for the light bill.
we will see their tattoos and listen to their stories and know they are not living by our morals and standards – those of the middle class.
This is what we want to prevent. You specifically? I don’t know. But us as a society – as voters and we in our professional organizations – we see “teen pregnancy” as equivalent to the swine flu epidemic or SARS.
Across the globe, from time immemorial, it has been utterly normal for a teen female to get pregnant. There are no two ways about this.
Our prevailing society has moved from this mode to a new mode – at least in values if not in practice.
We ourselves want to protect our teen daughters from the embarrassment and life-course-change of a teen pregnancy.
What would it be like if I had to inform my Sunday School class that my teen daughter was pregnant – and what if I told them and there was no upstanding young man as the father?
Oh, how could I show my face in that crowd anymore?
Better to put my daughter on the pill, and accept the redefinition of “pregnancy” at implantation – the doctors and science tell me this is OK –
then I can avoid the problem of looking like the lower classes.
And those lower classes – how could I look down on them with pity if I am in the same boat?
This is classism. A pregnancy is not an illness. We know this. Let’s trust our common sense, and think this through.
My teen daughter? We always knew we would support her, and welcome the grandchild if this happened to us. Would we be proud that this child did not handle her sexuality in the way we have tried to teach? No we would not be proud of that.
Kill the child to avoid embarrassment?
And what about the expense?
We had faith, and navigated this phase of life with our teen daughter knowing there was no morning after prescription under any fridge magnet just in case. she knew we would buy diapers, but we would make her change them. She acted accordingly.
Similarly, she acted accordingly responsible with her car. I gave her one, and she knew that was a good deal, and she would not be given another. She knew I would take the keys in a NY minute whenever I felt like it. She acted accordingly.
Not all parents are like us. The pill companies have the middle class wanting to not seem low-class, and have us middle class wanting to control the lower class.
So we are all for this morning-after pill deal. It is classism. It is eugenics- we cannot have the low class out-reproducing the decent classes.
Reality,
LOL!!
Did anybody see the Family Guy where Peter tries to talk Quagmire into ‘aborting’ his toddler? That’s what I thought this entry was going to be…
“How to cope with strong-willed children…Abort them.”