2001-08-24 - 1:13 p.m. - Friday Update

I hope all of you had a good week.

Things are going fine here.

Natalie is still having a hard time learning that she is NOT the center of the universe, and that she can NOT over-ride her parents, teachers, etc., just because she happens to not like our answers to her requests. Poor kid. She’s going to have such a hard time in her new school, but maybe it’ll be good for her. She can be such a bully, and I’d hate to let her continue to live in that, feeling like its o.k. At 3 a.m. she and I were going round and round about where she was going to sleep, and that I was NOT going to hold her the entire night. She is too big to continue to baby like that. So by the time I convinced her that I wasn’t going to change my mind, and she finally crawled back into her bed and went promptly to sleep, I was so exhausted that I over-slept this morning, and had to drive like a bat-out-of-torment in order to catch the right train. Thank you God for all the green lights!

Found out that the school is not going to do a skills assessment on Rebekah until September. By then, we’ll be moving her over anyway. Oh, well. They really were ill prepared to deal with her from the beginning. I sure hope this other school will handle her intelligence better.

Which brings me to another thing. I have been SO amazed by the amount of opposition to moving her up that we have received. In a world characterized by lower test scores, and an increased pressure on teachers to raise the bar for kids, it is amazing to me that there would be this intense pressure to leave her in a class so obviously below her skill level. Isn’t that social demotion? I mean, she’s larger than all the kids in her class, she knows more than all the kids in her class; she already tries to mother them all. She fits right in with older kids in playing. I don’t see the problem. I mean, even my parents, the bulwarks of academia and erudition, have voiced opposition to it. I was just stunned.

On another note, have you read much about embryo adoption? Here’s an organization that helps match infertile couples with couples that have frozen more embryos than they want. I believe that this is the only answer the pro-lifers will have to the proponents of embryonic stem-cell research. We much advocate embryonic adoption. We must publicize it. We must support it with all the emotion and resources that we have used to tear down the killing factories that once littered our country. Just as the Crisis Pregnancy Center movement has met the needs of the community by matching those in a crisis pregnancy with an adoptive couple, we need grass-roots organizations who can pair the couple wanting to experience pregnancy with the couple who have already completed their family but who now have extra unborn children to adopt out.

You all have a GREAT weekend!

Until next time….