Thanks to everyone for the advice and offer of prayer - sm

• HELP - Advice needed for my friend ASAP - sm - Oh Dear!
  • The kid needs some stability, not being pushed from - 2 cents
  • sm - WA
    • Thanks for the input - sm - Oh Dear!
  • Thanks to everyone for the advice and offer of prayer - sm - Oh Dear!
  • I briefly talked to my uncle, who is psychiatrist, about Tater. His recommendation was to take her - Sugar
  • I'd give this monster back to her mother - and life goes on
    • Wow! You really think that is going to help anything? - Oh Dear!
    • The responsible thing to do... - SM
    • love and responsibility are sure left out of your assessment. - nm
  • Tater - Dianean
    • email me - Dianean
      • Thanks, Sent you email. - nm - Oh Dear!
  • From what I've learned from... - SM
    • That's the problem I have with - sm - Oh Dear!
      • maybe, if neglected, - sm
  • advice /oh dear - Nanna23
  • Short note..more tomorrow - WA
    • Thanks - sm - Oh Dear!
      • OH DEAR! - GRAPENUT
  • Sounds pretty sad. - MTMommy
    • It is very sad - sm - Oh Dear!
      • Even more sad is the fact that there doesn't seem to be - sm - Oh Dear!
  • Forgot one other important piece of information - sm - Oh Dear!
    • I am so sorry for your friend and this situation sm - Karen S.
      • would the local - sm
        • She has been referred in the past - sm - Oh Dear!

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I've never been in your position before but it sounds like marriage counseling is a good last step. At least at the end of the counseling, you will know you tried all you could do.

I wish you the best in whatever decision you make. Good luck & I hope things work out for you.

Praying for your requests also.  I also had a very dear friend with ovarian cancer; seems that is something is pretty far along before the symptoms start, or, it was in her case.  Bless you!

Please rush me a photograph of the child please send me an email for my address etc.

believer

I just did pray for him.  Please let us know how he is doing, so we can see the result of our prayers.

Thanks.

Lynn

I believe what she meant was that she had never heard this dictated before; therefore, she was questioning it.  She was not questioning whether it is okay for a physician to pray with his patient. 

As the dawn breaks on a new year, let us give thanks for all we hold dear: our health, our family and our friends. 

Let us release our grudges, our anger and our pains, for these are nothing but binding chains. Let us live each day in the most loving ways, the God-conscious way. Let us serve all who are in need, regardless of race, color or creed.

Let us keep God of our own understanding in our hearts and to chant God’s name each day. Let us lead the world from darkness to light, from falsehood to truth and from wrong to right.

Let us remember that we are all one, embracing all, discriminating against none.

May your year be filled with peace, prosperity and love. May God's blessings shower upon you and bestow upon each of you a bright, healthy and peaceful new year.

Please pray for our little dog, Fluffy,  who is in the hospital right now and on oxygen.  We just came from there and he is having a lot of difficulty breathing.  He has swelling on his spinal cord and they are unable to do additional testing to find out why because of this complication.  Please everyone say a prayer for him that his breathing stabilizes and they can find out what the problem is. 

Thank you and God Bless

Is that for real? Is it someone here or was that a fwd that was posted? A few things jumped out at me as being inconsistent with the situation presented.

Many people have different beliefs and it is not just Christians who pray.  I would greatly respect any doctor, no matter what his religious beliefs, who takes a moment to acknowledge the importance of the task before him and that he can use a little help from above.  We humans, no matter how hard we try, are imperfect. Why are you so offended by someone who prays? And as for a rule ... maybe you are thinking about prayer in schools that is not allowed. 

Let me guess ... you are not offended by the doctor who cusses up a storm in his reports, or are you looking up rules for that one too!

I have been an MT for over 10 years.  I also am getting burnt out, tired of my job, day in day.  However, I do love transcription and make excellent money at it, have grossed over $50,000 per year the last 5 years.  I decided to go back to nursing school and am very happy with my choice.  However, over these 10 years of transcription I have had my ups and downs.  My biggest issue with being at home working is lack of socialization, being home day in and day out with just the kids and the animals really gets to a person, sure hubby is home at night and thinks working from home is the easy life, thus the return to school and boy has my overall enjoyment of life changed once I realized I was the problem, not everyone else and I needed to find myself again.

Anyway, my biggest advice to you three-fold:

1.  Get into counseling for yourself, find out who you are and what your needs are, whether or not you think you need to, I sense you are feeling overwhelmed and need someone other than your family to talk to that can be nonjudgmental to your feelings and needs.

2.  If you're only making $100 after you pay preschool you can either keep doing it and be miserable, or quit because you are lucky enough to have a husband who can support the family without your income. (See how fast his mind changes just by losing the income you do have as to whether your job means anything.)  Or look for a different company or office that you like more and are more productive if you really want to do transcription (lots of fish in the sea as far as companies).

3.  Find a local "mom's" group where you can get out and socialize.  MOPS (mother's of preschoolers) is an excellent one that is nationwide, they have a website.  Also Mom2Mom is in a lot of areas.  They provide a once a week time for moms with kids the same age to get together, socialize, (some offer spirtual guidance some don't) and each week a different mom takes a turn watching everyone else's children at the facility that hosts it so the other moms can talk about things they have in common.  Every stay-at-home and work-from-home mom needs to socialize with adults, without their kids, or they will have a nervous breakdown eventually no matter how much they love their kids.

Sorry so long but it does get better but you have to take the first step at making yourself happy.

I have a 13 yo boy.  He sounds much like your daughter, wonderful kid, straight A's very much likes to hang with the family, etc.  Never had a problem with him.  However, he knows that I mean business.  If a child is going to sneak and do stuff that he/she knows parents won't like I say give them a consequence to remember.  Maybe you either have to take a few days off work and go to school with your daughter, explaining to her that since she cannot be trusted you need to attend class with her to be sure everything is going okay or take everything away from her and let her know that since she is not being responsible enough to come to you and she feels the need to sneak things past you, you have felt the need to remove material possessions from her life until she can become responsible enough to handle it.  She is giving in to peer pressure which of course we know will only get worse.  Emphasize to her that she is number one to you, you love her too much to allow anybody to influence her the wrong way or to let her waste one day of her life doing things that will not benefit her.  She is God's gift to the earth and she should treat herself as such and expect others to treat her the same.  If her friends do not respect that her parents will not allow her to do certain things, than those friends need to go bye bye.  I know this sounds tough but guess what, you are not raising an 11 yo you are raising a strong, wonderful, beautiful, smart, wise woman, she is only 11 for 365 days.

Lastly I want to applaude you for even caring. When my son was in sixth grade a mother of a girl he goes to school with showed up at the awards assembly and was taking pictures of my son.  I sat down beside her and when I cheered for my son as he got an award she said "oh is that your son" to which I replied "yes it is" and she said "oh my daughter is so in love with him, that is why I am taking so many pictures"  I just wanted to punch her, what is she teaching her daughter by doing that?  I explained to her that my son was 11 and had no time for girls, he was heavily involved in basketball and church and would not be allowed to spend time with girls for quite a few years.  She was appalled at what I said.  I walked away, hoping she would think about it before her daughter met up with a boy whose parents don't expect the standards to be quite so high. 

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part-time associates after 2 years.  They also have insurance that full-time associates can get during their 90-day waiting period for their regular insurance to kick in after they are hired.