I don’t know what denomination this is, but I know some it is not. It may be Baptist as it is full immersion baptism in the strongest sense of the word.
Watch the second boy get baptized.

There are many, many children who cut their teeth, so to speak, on Sesame Street.
Heck, there are lots of adults I have known over the years who have gotten one of the catchy tunes performed by those crazy Muppets stuck in their head for days on end. Those who know me well [...]

This bit of humor at the 2008 Scripps National Spelling Bee might have been an unusual occurrence, but judging from the reaction of those in attendance it was obviously a welcome one.
As Art Linkletter used to say, “Kids Say The Darndest Things.”

By the way, the young man in the video, Sameer Mishra [...]

What a tragedy.

Please be in prayer for his family and friends.

There is no embed code for the video, but it is well worth clicking the link to see the video and how this young man’s father punished him out of love.

The teacher should be fired and the administration fired also for not doing anything about it. The teacher didn’t think she did anything wrong? Where did she get her teaching certificate? From the JC Penney catalog?
I hope the mother does sue and the teacher and administrators are the ones required to pay [...]

There are football fans and then there is this young man:

The most sensible and concise article I have read to date on “Operation Chaos” appeared in the Washington Post:
Those looking for evidence of Limbaugh’s influence pointed to Clinton’s edge among Republicans in Indiana and North Carolina. In Indiana, 10 percent of Democratic primary voters [...]

For Those Born 1930-1979
To all the kids who survived the 1930’s, 40’s, 50’s,
60’s and 70’s!!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked
and/or drank while they were pregnant.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from
a can, and didn’t get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our
tummies in baby [...]

While the video quality may be a bit rough, (no doubt due to age), the message from Bill Gaither to his grandson is pricless in this performance of “We’ll Be There.”

Thanks to Mrs. Greyhawk at Mudville Gazette for the link to this post from Eric at Zen Traveler.
We went to a ballet school in central Baghdad today and did a story on the school and its students.
The pictures at the above site are priceless. They serve to reaffirm what most of us already know. [...]

I was shocked, angered and dismayed when I read the story of eleven third-graders plotting to kill their teacher.
They had it planned right down to assigning of the conspirators to clean up the blood!
These are eight and nine year old children—right about the same age as three of my grandchildren.
Parents allow televisions to be babysitters [...]

Wheelchairs for Iraqi Kids helps needy disabled children of Iraq by providing high quality pediatric wheelchairs, each sponsored by individual and corporate donors. Sponsors receive a picture of the disabled children as they are placed in their wheelchair for the first time! This is a unique opportunity, as families around the world have [...]

Today will be a busy day making further preparations for Christmas.
I will be baking cookies with the grandkids and they will be wrapping some beautiful ornaments they made as gifts for our family members.
My favorite things every year are the homemade decorations all the children I have had the pleasure to care for [...]

To view the video go here.

It’s always been my contention that you cannot expect children to be mind readers.
Wouldn’t it have been fun to be a fly on the wall (to see the reaction of the children and the adults in attendance), when a Nun in Michigan made certain there were no shades of gray in her rules [...]

My ten year old granddaughter has been dabbling in poetry for the past couple of weeks.
Here’s one she wrote on the spur of the moment and then had to present it to the school board last night since the teacher who volunteered her to do a presentation of a social studies project was not there [...]

This time of the year it seems as though some of what arrives in your internet mailbox are things which cross peoples minds as they prepare for the holidays and also reflect on their own lives.
I don’t know how widely circulated the piece below has been, so just thought I’d share.
Can I borrow $25?
A man [...]

There are so many children in this country (especially older ones) who are in need of either quality foster care or adoptive families who can show them the love and support they need.
According to this article in the LA Times, there is real progress in placing many of these children.
Saturday was a day unlike almost [...]

The NYT did themselves proud by allowing this sixteen year old young man to tell his story of adoption, rebellion and love without editorial correction.
I’d bet there are many young people his age who have many of the same feelings…I think I did and know my own children did.
I hope you enjoy reading his story. [...]

Not having children who are of school age but grandchildren who are rapidly approaching that exciting time in their lives, I found this piece on homework very informative.
American students continue to fall behind much of the rest of the world in math and science and recent surveys of their literacy and knowledge of history, [...]

This is indeed good news from Afghanistan.
Six years after the Taliban’s ouster, medical care in Afghanistan has improved such that nearly 90,000 children who would have died before age 5 in 2001 will survive this year, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Sunday.
Saddled for years with one of the world’s worst records on child health, Afghanistan [...]

Ten weeks after Rebecca Jones of Starke UK, found out she was going to have twin boys she was told one of the boys, Gabriel, had an enlarged heart and would die.
Doctors convinced her it would be better for him to die in utero where he had a twin brother, rather than be born, [...]

If you have children who watch Nickelodeon, especially in the early hours of the morning, this post from Army Wife Toddler Mom is one which is a must read:
NICKELODEON IS BRAINWASHING YOUR CHILD
Linda Ellerby is the host, that should be enough said.
Pay particular attention to the second and fourth stories.
This Nickeldeon “news” program, [...]

Last week I lamented the fact the school board for one of the schools in my home state had voted to allow middle schoolers as young as 11 years old to get birth control pills without having to disclose the reason for the health visit to the parents.
There’s a new twist in the story now [...]

Surely? Surely?
Enjoy!

HT: GodTube

…That’s what little boys are made of. Now we can add cars.
In one case six year old Josh Barber of Broomfield, Colorado, woke up hungry.
His mother was recovering from surgery and his grandmother was in charge of the little guy. She was still asleep.
Josh decided he was hungry and wanted to go to [...]

On Sunday Senators Trent Lott and Chuck Schumer debated the S-Chip program on Fox News Sunday.
After reading the full transcript I can’t understand how the Congresscritters who voted for this increase realistically plan to pay for the program.
Senator Schumer says it’s pay as you go.
In one way or another, they lose out for the rest [...]

Two high school boys in Waterford, CA, were fighting. The punishment is normally suspension. Instead of suspending the students the principal made them get down on their hands and knees, look at each other through a chair and promise they would not engage in that behavior again.
One mother is suing.
Take a look at [...]

In what has to be a big disappointment for Mary Winkler, who was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the killing of her husband and is now on probation, a judge issued a stay preventing her from having the supervised visit with her daughters as planned yesterday.
JACKSON, Tenn. — An appeals court Friday blocked a supervised [...]