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A Fun Activity Song for Christmas
Distribute nine drawings of the following creatures around your seats prior to the service and invite anyone who finds one in front of (or beneath) them to come out to the front and hold it up for everyone to see. To make it a bit easier for them to work out their order when they […]
Children of Divorced Parents
Legal Presumption That Children Spend Equal Time With Separated Parents In Australia: A Flawed Reform Proposal? John Wade Professor School of Law Bond University “There is a simple solution to all complex human problems; and it is wrong.” In 2003, the Australian government established an inquiry into whether there should be a legal presumption that […]
The Christmas Alphabet – especially for children
(PS. If you use this it might be a good idea to update the Bible translation). Author Unknown [A] is for Angels, appearing so bright, Telling of Jesus that first Christmas night. “And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of theheavenly host.” Luke 2:13 [B] is for Bethlehem, crowded and old, Birthplace of […]
Beyond Bonking! Thoughts on sex for teenagers
What on earth is ‘sacred sex’? Whether you are from a Christian background, whether you were brought up in another religious tradition, or whether you and your family have no particular religious convictions, you will be aware of the strong reserve at almost all levels of society about endless ‘casual sex’. ‘Why?’ you might ask. […]
A Buried Treasure
by Bob Perks She is your neighbor. She lives in that house down the street where the grass gets a little tall in the summer. The sidewalks remain covered in snow a little longer than most of the homes in your area. During your early morning drive you’ll see her outside in her housecoat and […]
YOU KNOW YOU’RE GETTING OLD….
How do you know when you’re getting old? * Everything hurts, and what doesn’t hurt, doesn’t work. * You feel like it’s the “morning after”, but you didn’t go anywhere the night before. * You sit in a rocking chair but can’t get it going. * You bend over to tie your shoes and ask […]
Counselling question about paternity
Dear Mr. Croucher, My name is ___ and I’m in year 9. I was just wondering if you would be able to help me with my health assignment. We were asked give some guidence/ counsleing on a senario relating to sex another person in our class came up with. The senario i was given was […]
Appreciating the Qualities of Children
© By the Rev. Edward Chinn, D.Min. I had lunch recently with two other Episcopal priests. All three of us are grandparents. We talked for a while about the dangers to children nowadays. Then, the conversation turned to our grandchildren. Someone raised the question: “What will our grandchildren say about us in fifty years. One […]
Reluctant Bachelors
From a netfriend: These stories got told at a workshop yesterday. One attendee had grown up on a property in the Wheat Belt, where her family still farm. She said that besides there being a shortage of eligible females in rural districts in WA, some of the guys she knew were reluctant to get married […]
Forever Young
Youth is not a time of life – it is a state of mind, it is a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over love of ease. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of […]
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