Catholic Word of the Day: LATENCY PERIOD, 07-30-09

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LATENCY PERIOD

The interval between physical contact with a stimulus and a person's actual reaction. The term mainly applies to the years between five and twelve, when children do not, unless abnormally and unwisely aroused, react to sexual stimulation. The Church advises parents to cultivate this period for teaching children the principles of faith and training them in the moral habits they will need as the foundation of their adult Christian life.

All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.

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Does our legal system go along with this definition or not?

Do parents adhere to these instructions about the formations of their children?

This should be an interesting discussion.

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Catholic Word of the Day – not linked – but you can do a search to find them.

 

Salvific Will	Holy Spirit	Transplantation of Organs
Spiritual Espousals	Addiction	Coenobium
Irascible Appetite	Development of Doctrine	Equiprobabilism
Advocate	Latency Period

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Catholic Word of the Day (Group One) – not linked – but you can do a search to find them.

La Salette	Liturgy	Andacollo
Kings, Book of	Physiologus	Old Catholics
Baltimore Catechism	Armagh, Book of	Nature
Eulogia	Orders, Sacrament of	Missionary
Dominus Vocbiscum	Ichthus-Fish	Abbacy of St.Jerome
Invalid	Doctrinal Demythology	Metaphysics
Ecclesia Docens	Apostolic Signatura	Octaves
Religion as feeling	Temperament	Gifts of the Holy Spirit
Congregation for Catholic Education	Sponsor	Mystery Play
Paschal Candle	Imitation of Christ	Voluntarism
Matter, Sacramental	Notion	Chancel
Gabbatha	Gregorian Masses	Ordo
Resolution of Amendment	Supreme Evil	Archives, Vatican
Pride	Solovyevism	Natural Law
Revealed Law	Presbyter	First Saturdays
Alma Redemptoris Mater	Divorce	Jubilee
Procession	Teilhardism	Hysteron Proteron
Bodily Immortality	Vicar Forane	Intercommunion, Eucharistic

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Catholic Word of the Day (Group Two) – not linked – but you can do a search to find them.

 

Proclamation	Consecration to the Sacred Heart	Nominalism
Rules of Conscience	St. John Lateran	Hermeneutics
Doctrinal Universalism	Good Friday	Our Father
Soul of the Church	Latin Cross	Book of Sentences
Liber Pontificalis	Paraclete	People of God
Bodily Resurrection	Cardinal Electors	Subsidiarity
Striking the Breast	Transfinalization	Ordinary
Titular Sees	Wake	Knowledge
Polygenism	Sede Vacante	Peace Plate or Tablet
Heroic Act	Abbey Nullius	Vulgate
Founder	Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples	Vow
Impassibility	Vitandus	Dedication of the Months
Solemn Vows	Species	Dark Night of the Soul
Social Sin	Dialectical Materialism	Pharisaical Scandal
Inquisition	Precedence	Holy Chrism
Quietism	Natural Family Planning (practice)	Primitive Religion

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We explain “the facts of life” to our kids around the time they’re 12 or 13. They’re familiar with basic anatomy before that - have to be, with babies all the time.

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nd I did likewise. But I think you are beating me on the little ones. We had five children — all grown and married now.

Remember that grandchildren are your reward for not drowning your teenagers!

(One of my deceased husband’s favorite sayings — LOL!

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My great grandmother, the one whose best friend was Panagia, always maintained that you have your children until they are twelve years old. You have twelve years to teach them what they need to know to be good, civilized, Christians. After twelve, your children belong to the world.

We raised our boys with that in mind and her advice worked. I overheard the older one say exactly that to some parents who were in the office a few days ago on a legal problem with her kids.

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After twelve, your children belong to the world.

Interesting observation. It depends on how much they get out, I suppose. My experience is that around 12-13 is when they turn interesting (with the exception of Pat, who's been a clinical case since birth). Although I sometimes want to kill them, there are more times when I'm grateful to be around so many fun people all the time.

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I would add that being in a “natural family,” so to speak, is an antidote to the oversexed culture. When a girl has changed little brothers’ diapers, how interesting is male nudity? When boys have been around breastfeeding for years, are they going to get worked up over some pop-tart’s bosom?

Pioneer life, as it were - it’s all just survival.

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** I overheard the older one say exactly that to some parents who were in the office a few days ago on a legal problem with her kids.**

You’ve got a bright son there. Following in your footsteps?

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I like your analysis of family life. My older girls had to change diapers too (and they hated it.)

Due to medication I was taking I could not breastfeed, but all my children who have my grandkids have breastfed. So I still must have done something right.

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“You’ve got a bright son there.”

Thank-you!

“Following in your footsteps?”

Indeed he is! He’s much nicer than I am though.

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So I still must have done something right.

I'd say so! Five children married and having children is pretty impressive! I'm always impressed by anyone whose children have turned out functional - including my parents, I suppose, since my brother and I are both self-supporting good citizens.

It used to be (stepping on my soapbox) that it was just expected that people would get married and have children. Now, it seems that the default position is people will NOT have children, and if you do have children, continue having them (as is the natural thing into one's 40s) then you're an extremist of some kind, or a saint.

NO WAI I'm a saint. I yell at people and drink too much wine and slaver over Tom Selleck and Bibi Netanyahu, and FReep when I should be doing something more useful. I just have kids. They're normal kids, not perfect kids. Homeschooling isn't making them exemplary kids: Anoreth was never a diligent student, and she had her papers signed for the Coast Guard a week after turning 18. Bill wants to be a cook. None of the "Oooh, Harvard!" stuff ... if anything, they've picked up my farm-kid bias and think Harvard is mincy ;-).

Things are just weird in our culture.

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Well, I’ve got you beat: Anoreth is NOT nicer than I am!

(Although she might be nicer than I was at 18. More realistic, anyway. I had 1540 SAT scores and one heck of an attitude problem.)