Anyone can be a bully. Even a friend. Even a parent. Maybe parents and all adults need to ask themselves, “Do I model bullying behavior?”
The website Mean Stinks, says:
Bullying is name calling. Do my children hear me describe someone as: stupid, a nerd, wacko, crazy, fat or a retard?
Do you believe in God Nudges? What is a God Nudge? I learned from a pastor a long time ago, if someone comes into your mind—especially someone who you do not see or talk to on a regular basis. Pay attention! It may be God nudging to contact that person.
An example of a God Nudge in my life happened a year ago.
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With over 13.7 million single parents in the United States, we all have seen or experienced the pressures of single parenting. Amanda writes that single parenting is “an overwhelming, exhausting job. Sometimes it feels like I have the whole world on my shoulders.”
Giving yourself a little space as a single parent is so important. It helps ensure that you offer your kids and others the best of who you are.
My wife, Karen, speaks of “God Nudges” from time to time. I usually reference her nudges to something she read out of her Bible, some verse out of Jerimiah or Corinthians, out of devotional books, or the like. However, I recently discovered that sometimes these nudges have secular roots. Like from out of The New York Times.
My life as a boy was filled with violence, blood and hiding places. My siblings and I were shuffled back and forth between our violent-alcoholic parents and a terribly abusive orphanage.
I carried the abuse inside me like a brick. I felt like I had so many bad secrets that I wasn’t supposed to tell anyone, and I was so scared to let them slip that I stopped talking.
