I’m beginning to see my husband’s perspective on teens and texting. After an episode of he said /she said that apparently went on until 4:00am this morning involving my two oldest teens and various friends, I have to feel that texting just creates social barriers.
When matters of the heart can be dealt with by the clicking of buttons, something has to change. When tone is indiscernible and things can be said that would never be said face to face, things have to change.
I honestly see the advantages of texting. In fact, I enjoy and use it quite a bit myself. Quick texts about a person’s day or their whereabouts are a good thing. This is much easier than entering into a lengthy conversation when a few words can do the trick.
However, I’m just not sure that youth of today understand when it’s time to step away from the message box and actually dial that person’s number. They don't verbally engage one another on a personal level and make sure that what is being communicated is being said understanding there is another human receiving the message.
My hubby has been rallying for the removal of texting from our teens' plans for quite a while. The fact that they’ve exceeded 20,000 texts a month should have convinced me, but the brouhaha that ensued this morning all over a text battle last night has opened my eyes.
Now we have to decide, do we -
1. Go cold turkey and turn texting off completely 2. Set time limits on when texting is an option – like 8am to 10pm 3. Realize we can do nothing because these are young “adults” 4. Confiscate phones at night
It’s time to get serious and make a decision. One that will inevitably lead to another brouhaha as these privileges are in danger of being revoked.
Life Ready Woman Author: Shaunti Feldhahn and Robert Lewis
About The Life Ready Woman:
Are you a ‘Doing it all’ or ‘Do what matters’ woman?
Whether a stay at home; or working mom, an airplane-hopping executive, an empty-nester caring for multiple generations or a single juggling high demands of career and personal life, today's fast-paced modern world leaves women gasping for balance. We as modern Christian women want to look to the Bible for guidance on how to manage our lives -- but because the world of women looks so different today than it did when the Bible was written, it is hard to find chapter and verse that seems to apply to our situation today.
Thankfully, God has given us exactly that timeless, unchanging guidance for how to find peace, clarity, and God's best for our lives once we know where to look! The Life Ready Woman: Thriving in a Do-It-All World, reveals a profound biblical roadmap for how each of us can find the abundant life we are longing for, rather than the stressful, torn, how-do-I-balance-it-all life we often feel like we are trying to keep up with today. Actually being a LifeReady Woman means that you are clear about your life, bold in your faith, and able to find God’s best for you, and the end result will be that you not only survive but thrive in our do-it-all world.
God has given every wonderfully unique woman different skills and abilities, different desires, and different temperaments -- and every woman around the planet and through the ages is certainly living in different circumstances. But no matter what a woman’s life looks like, the Bible says that God has an individual mission and plan that He’s carefully designed for each of us. And He wants us to find it. Starting January 2011, The Life Ready Woman and the Life Ready Woman Video Series will help every wonderfully unique woman to thrive as she identifies and courageously pursues God's unique design and callings for her. LifeReady Woman puts you on a roadmap to make decisions that will lead to relief, delight, and fulfillment instead of regret.
My Review:
I am one of those women who has grown up believing the mark of a good woman is the ability to do it all, and, hopefully, do it all well. I live the mantra that failure is not an option. Thus, "Thriving in a Do-It-All-World" seemed like just the ticket to finding that balance that allows me to accomplish everything without even getting my cape dirty.
That's not what this book is, however. It doesn't give you the magic keys to the Proverbs 31 kingdom. What it does do is talk straight about what we were made for, what our roles are at any given time and why we shouldn't buy into the myth that it ALL has to be done right now to do it right.
This book made me think, and think deeply. It made me reevaluate the worldview I had taken in and see things from the lense of how God intended me to live. If you're looking for a book rich in PC (political correctness), this is not that book. Unapologetically, Shaunti and Robert address the seasons of a woman's life and encourage her to embrace each of them with focus. The season of childrearing for instance. This one hit me hard as it is a season I've been in for a while, but am starting to see the end of the road with apprehension. Shaunti and Robert encourage a woman to embrace this season and not let it slip by chasing a career or falling into the trap of the do-it-all, miss-most-of-it mentality. Career season is addressed as well - there is time to dogedly pursue a fulfilling career after children are raised. Not that everyone can stay at home, but we can all choose to put family first for the parenting season.
With a she-said, he-said (in agreement!) approach, this team also addresses dating and marriage. If you're single, you learn to be open to love while waiting and praying for the right one to come along. If you're married, you read about what it means to be a strong helpmate to your husband empowering him while strengthening your marriage. I know, some of your are cringing. I'm a strong woman - don't get me wrong. There isn't a passive bone in my body. That's not what they are saying. They are saying that God made us man and woman with strengths and weaknesses that enhance one another when used for the good of the marriage and not just the individual.
I highly recommend this book. It's not a quick read as you'll want to ponder each chapter and see how it applies to your life. It's a book that looks at what we were made to be as women of God, and not what we're told we should be by society. I'll be mentally chewing on this book for a long time to come.
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Shaunti Feldhahn is a former Wall Street analyst, best-selling author of the book For Women Only, national speaker, and regular commentator in the media. She has been featured on The Today Show, PBS, TNT and Fox News- to name a few. You can learn more about her many activities by visiting her website Shaunti.com or get some great mom advice from her at MomLifeToday.com. She and her husband live with their two young children in Atlanta, Georgia and enjoy every minute of living at warp speed.
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