More Topics for "Family Life"

[janine]

Here's more, from my conversation with a 'Net friend:

[!--QuoteBegin--][/span][table border=\"0\" align=\"center\" width=\"95%\" cellpadding=\"3\" cellspacing=\"1\"][tr][td]Quote [/td][/tr][tr][td id=\"QUOTE\"][!--QuoteEBegin--]Janine says: Can I pick your brain?

St. says: slim pickins but go ahead

Janine: What topics would you like to see addressed on a discussion board re: family, home, living out your faith, being single, etc.?
What's on your heart these days?

St.: hmmm....

Ageing Parents
Finding Time for Meaningful Prayer
Spiritual Discipline
Loneliness/ Physical Needs[/quote]

Good stuff.  Any more ideas?

janine do you have any good \"bad housekeeping horror stories\" you're itching to share?

[Bon Voyage]

I see Janine...

[Bon Voyage]

..so many...

[janine]

newtome posted: Jan. 21 2003,04:31
[!--QuoteBegin--][/span][table border=\"0\" align=\"center\" width=\"95%\" cellpadding=\"3\" cellspacing=\"1\"][tr][td]Quote [/td][/tr][tr][td id=\"QUOTE\"][!--QuoteEBegin--]how come there are so few family topics?[/quote]

I said:
[!--QuoteBegin--][/span][table border=\"0\" align=\"center\" width=\"95%\" cellpadding=\"3\" cellspacing=\"1\"][tr][td]Quote [/td][/tr][tr][td id=\"QUOTE\"][!--QuoteEBegin--]Possibly because we are all priggishly self-satisfied with the wonderfulness of our families?
:blush:  :eek:
Seriously, that's one thing I want to improve/increase is the topics that might fit under \"Family Life\", precisely because my family life is NOT all I think I'd like it to be...

And I've only a very short time before my older two children are out of my house, out from under my wing.

Scary thought.  Incorrect thought, maybe, 'cause any protection I provided through childhood
(a) got its power from God, and He'll still be with them when they leave, and
(b) I've had 21 and 17 years to instill in them the strength and wisdom to protect themselves, to stay right there in the palm of God's hand.

Ah, well.

Have you any topics you'd like to look at here, Newtome?[/quote]

Sooo... Let's have a toss-around-the-ideas session.  This forum offers quite a think-tank of minds.

What issues or teaching would you like to see discussed here?  Whether or not Bible-related, church-related.  (Of course all our lives eventually do come back to the Bible and to our God, anyway, but you know what I mean.)

Topics, as related to the home/family:

Marriage
Division of Roles/Labor in the Household
Early Marriage vs Later
Interplay of Agape, Phileo & Eros in Your Love Life
Medicine
Research
Pets
Diet
Entertainment
Entertaining
Spending
Employment
Housing
Thriftiness/Simple Living
Extravagance/Guilty Luxuries
The \"Good Old Days\"
Bad Housekeeping Horror Stories
Mattresses vs Waterbeds
Showers vs Baths
Kids
Where Does Your Baby Sleep?
Birth Control & Child Spacing
Breast or Bottle?
Son's wardrobe
Daughter's wardrobe
\"Fitting in\"
Single Life
Companionship, Sexuality & Sensuality
Pursuit of Marriage
Career
Physical Labor vs Intellectual Labor
International Trends and Your Job
God in the Workplace
Bringing Your Work Home
Working From Home- Telecommute
Working From Home- Home-Based Business
Your Family & Time With Other Christians
Women Supporting & Affirming Each Other
Men Supporting & Affirming Each Other
Mixed-Gender Religious Activity/Service
Giving the Kids Responsibility for Their Own Faith & Christian Actions
Non-Traditional Little Kids', Teens' & Adults' Bible Classes
What Did You Learn \"In Church\" This Week?

That's all my mind will produce right now.  Am gathering more from MSN buddy as I post.

Please offer more suggestions, if you'd like to see more in this forum.

wonderful list(s) of topics!
i'm especially interested in showers vs. baths and matresses vs. waterbeds... lol
:D
i'd be interested in what kind of habits others have in their families to act out Christ among themselves. prayer with spouse or whole family when waking up and going to sleep, not just at meals? going to church together or growing the church together? do parents take children to soup kitchens and habitat for humanity?
Christianity is about associating with people of less than savory character; how do we act that out, teach that to our spouses and children? how adamant are we about getting involved with cards or visits when others in the family don't jump at the idea - not just to the elderly or visitors from church but prisons and lower social classes? or what about door knocking your neighbors?!
how do you light a fire for your family to revolve around Christ and hourly Christianity instead of revolving around the TV and hourly sitcoms?
does a man force his wife and kids to take their own clothes and toys and furniture to the needy?
can a woman demand out of Christian duty, out of need to be active in Christ, that everyone in the family rake the leaves of the neighborhood to spread Jesus' sevanthood?
may a Christian child command his/her parents to turn of the computers and televisions to drive around town looking for homeless to give cash to?
and for that matter, can elders tell christians in their flock/family that they MUST act like christians, do the work of christians by all visiting prisons and door knocking and joining the nursing home singing next sunday?

[janine]

Funny you should mention itching... :help: :frowning:

Seriously, I will relate some sooner or later.  Maybe someone else will start the thread.

\"Heloise's Hilariously Hellish Household Hints\"?  \"10 Ways to Immediately Kill Domestic Bliss\"?  Think of a topic title.

[Bon Voyage]

...how you have...

[Bon Voyage]

..posts.  

Just messin' with ya Janine.   :D

[janine]

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