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Don't let children do sleepovers
Topic Started: Oct 29 2016, 04:02 AM (627 Views)
Big John
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John D'Oh
Oct 29 2016, 08:13 AM
I got as far as 'James Dobson believes...' and stopped reading.
I would never let my kids sleep at Dobson's house.

http://www.landoverbaptist.org/audio/pod/sweetanointing.mp3





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Larry
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What does the comedy site "Landover Baptist Church" have to do with James Dobson?
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Dobson's books on child-rearing, willful children, the power of children to manipulate, overwhelm parents, challenge them -- even infants etc... taking the belt to the family dog in front of the kids to teach kids discipline, instructions on how a father is to shower with his son and how the boy will notice his father's junk etc. He just hits my creepy button.





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Larry
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He may "hit your creepy button", but that doesn't mean you can pass off a Landover Baptist Church audio as him. Have you raised any children? I have. Some were willful, some were manipulative, they could be overwhelming, they all tried to challenge me, and every last one of them got spankings (though not with a belt).

I am unaware of Dobson ever suggesting that a father and son should shower together so the boy will notice his father's "junk". I imagine that's just you engaging in the same sort of bull sh!t you did when you posted the audio recording.
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Larry
Oct 29 2016, 04:39 PM
I agree that making a blanket statement that all sleepovers should be banned is a little too extreme. But that doesn't mean Dobson isn't a real Christian, nor does it give Tom the right to pass judgment on the man. It's a fairly stupid comment to be honest.
Sorry Larry, but he's on the fringe of Christianity. I think his article about "how best to control you kids through sleepovers" itself is kind of creepy. But then again you are the kind of person that believes Trump is a good Christian. So maybe it makes sense to you.

But then again maybe you're a bit creepy too. How did your kids turn out?



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Oct 29 2016, 06:03 PM
Larry
Oct 29 2016, 04:39 PM
I agree that making a blanket statement that all sleepovers should be banned is a little too extreme. But that doesn't mean Dobson isn't a real Christian, nor does it give Tom the right to pass judgment on the man. It's a fairly stupid comment to be honest.
Sorry Larry, but he's on the fringe of Christianity. I think his article about "how best to control you kids through sleepovers" itself is kind of creepy. But then again you are the kind of person that believes Trump is a good Christian. So maybe it makes sense to you.

But then again maybe you're a bit creepy too. How did your kids turn out?



Let me see.... you belong to a religious organization that requires you to call a preacher "Father" in spite of the fact that scripture makes it clear you are NOT to do that, that prays to Mary in spite of the fact that scripture tells you NOT to do that, that is littered with rituals picked up from Rome's pagan religions..... so you are in no position to accuse anyone of being "on the fringe of Christianity", since that is exactly where YOU are.

I used to think you said the sh!t you say just to get a rise out of people. I have come to learn that that isn't it.... you're just dumb.
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Oct 29 2016, 11:17 AM
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In the history of the world, children have never been safer than they are now.


I disagree completely.

When I was a kid, we could go anywhere we wanted, be gone for hours, most of the time our parents didn't have a clue where we were and didn't worry about it because they were confident that no one would bother us. People left their houses unlocked even if they were gone on a trip. The house I grew up in didn't even have a lock. We had guns, bows and arrows, yet we didn't shoot each other. The thought never crossed our minds to do that. We'd get into fist fights, beat the sh!t out of each other, then get up and go swimming in the lake or something, best buddies again. The worst thing one kid would hand another and say "do this" was some tobacco leaves he'd taken from the barn. There was no concern about pedophiles, because there weren't any to be concerned about.

Today, kids aren't safe outside their own front yard. Pedophiles are so common they have to be listed on a registry so you'll know which houses to stay away from. Drugs are everywhere, even in their parents' medicine cabinet. You have to keep your doors locked even when you're home.

That's just a few things that I can think of. There's plenty more. A kid growing up when I did was safe just about anywhere he went. Today a kid isn't even safe in his own bedroom.

I too get nostalgic at times about how I grew up, but kids now don't have time to be gone for hours. Nor do they want to play in the front yard if they did have time. It's not the lack of safety that stops them; they just have other things they would rather do.

Being able to do all those things you described doing back in the day doesn't mean that kids were safer back then. It was just a different life.

It seems that you were talking about a way of life; I was talking about measures that (for better or for worse) got implemented. Today's child has to wear a helmet to ride a bike; they didn't have to do that back in the day. Things like that.

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