Posted on 03/04/2007 8:21:23 AM PST by Iscool
. . . there but for the grace of God . . .
I've decided that Anoreth and I will teach Kindergarten Sunday School next year, so that we can have Pat in class. It wouldn't be fair to inflict him on an unsuspecting teacher who doesn't realize that she's a heretic. He also levitates, which is startling to those who aren't used to it.
I've been following you around for a few months, so you didn't just tell me anything about yourself that I didn't already know. Your faith is reflected in your actions around here & it is because of you that I've considered investigating some of the other rites.
She's very good now and stays fully clothed in church. She's also a police detective in a city out West and she hates it when I remind her of things like this!
Exactly!
Blah.blah, blah,
Catholics really don't care when splitters attack our faith.
Again, Iscool has proven once again that God has a sense of humor. I'll pray for you at Mass. I'll ask Christ to give you the gift of tolerance for your fellow Christians.
I wonder about my son, I used to find him in odd places like the tops of trees and the roof of the house, but I never saw him while he was getting there (I would have stopped him).
He currently wants to join the Navy and is in a cadet program where they get to do Marine Recon and stuff, that seems to satisfy his desire for high places . . .
That one's really over the top! I thought things were bad when my 5 year old son stood up at the parish talent show and started telling "jokes," the aimless way only a 5 yr old can do. He had gone down the aisle to sit with an older gentleman and his wife that he loved, and we couldn't get close enough to him to bring out the hook. But at least it wasn't televised.
His feet just drift toward the ceiling, and the rest of his body follows. This is accompanied by humming and peculiar gestures.
It wouldn't be fair to inflict this on the average Sunday School teacher, but I'd like him to have the chance to associate with normal children, so as to get the idea that it's possible to act like a normal child!
Ooops!
He's currently on an atheism kick . . . silly boy. He doesn't want to go to church but we make him go, so he stands in the back and looks sulky. One of the deacons is giving him a hard time, teasing him. But I'm not too concerned -- he told me the reason he doesn't want to go to Mass is that "they might convince me" !!
I predict that he'll get over it. I did!
Funny you should mention that. Just today, that very thing happened during Mass. I expect my almost four year old to make it through without using the bathroom. Almost two year old knows she if she starts to pull down her tights, I'll run her out.
Anyway, today, elder daughter announces she need to go potty. I tell her she needs to wait until after mass. She wails (rather loudly) "But I don't want to go pee pee in my panties."
So I took her out. I did remember that in the rush this morning, I didn't make her go and her pullup was dry, so she did really need to go. Chalk this one up to bad parenting.
As one of the priests says, "Teenagers! Tired of living at home and being bossed around? Leave home and get a job while you still know everything!"
I sometimes have one of the "old enough to know better" children ask whether they can go to the bathroom during Mass ... and then James hears it and yells, "JAMES WANTS TO GO TO THE BATHROOM!!!" and you have to take him to shut him up.
The offending child usually has to wash dishes for the rest of the day, because they know you can't mention the bathroom around James!
Oh, heck yes! I wish they could!
I think our Catholic mother stories have driven off the anti-Papist crowd.
While during Catechism of the Good Shepherd classes, the teacher came in and handed my a pair of panties, bright yellow with Piglet's face on the rear. Most definitely from my home. She said my daughter had walked up to her, handed them over and announced "I don't want these." From all appearances, there was nothing wrong with them and she insisted she didn't have to go potty.
While the other mothers were worried about the fact that a child had managed to remove her underpants during class without the teacher noticing, I remembered that my daughter was actually wearing her Sleeping Beauty panties that day. (I could see them peeking out from her pants, she really skinny) Turns out, I too had let an almost four year old dress herself, and she put on the pants that she wore briefly the day before and failed to remove the underwear that was still in them. At least that's my guess as to the extra pair she had with her. Anyway, when they fell out, she didn't want them.
Works every time.
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