I agree- God bless Mike Lindell. I'm a Christian and I believe God gave him his ideas, business, and success to fight this fight in such a time as this. The left has so unfairly maligned him as stupid, he's lost so much money, and yet he KEEPS. ON. FIGHTING.
I don't think I could do it.
We are struggling in this economy but as soon as things are better I'll be buying more pillows, sheets, and towels. Mike deserves to get everything he's lost back and then some.
Here as well- we don't really do personal social media but we have business pages on FB, insta, and a business YT channel. I about had a heart attack when we got logged out and couldn't get back in- I don't need our business page hacked lol. I'm simultaneously freaked out over the outage and relieved that we aren't hacked and our customers aren't getting spammed with horrible messages or posts.
We homeschooled all 7 of our kids. There was one child in particular who acted a lot like your daughter. We finally settled on a hands off curriculum for him that had daily lessons on the computer and multiple choice testing (it was called Switched on Schoolhouse and that was over 20 years ago - it wasn't online but on disks.) That kept me from fighting with him and it was his choice how long his schooling took. I'm sure there are far more options available now.
Another thing you might consider if she is bored is letting her pursue something that she's passionate about. This would be a subject she is free to explore on her own- you just provide the materials she needs, whether that is letting her watch documentaries, making trips to the library, buying extra curriculum or materials, etc. We let our kids do unit studies on whatever really interested them and let them dig into those things in their free time after they got their basic schoolwork done for the day (it might be horses, art, filmmaking or anything- we ended up with a 13 year old who built his own computer after he spent a LONG time learning how to build computers.) If she finds something she loves and is passionate about, it helps motivate her to get the rest of her work done so that she can move onto what really interests her.
I second the "bribe" suggestion also. Let her earn rewards for doing what she's supposed to do; they don't have to be huge things.
And there is just this- she has to learn that in life we all have to do things we don't want to do.
My heart literally yearns for this!
She was 13 when Trump was elected. So she really wasn't paying attention to the economy or serious social issues then, other than hearing what we discussed at home. So she really has no way to compare now. But if Trump gets back in and turns things around, then she will be able to truly compare. As a young adult now, she hears what we are saying but she is also bombarded by what the media and her peers say which is essentially just "orange man bad." When we ask her why not Trump, all she can say is that she doesn't like him. I get that that's a bad reason for her to not choose him but we can't force her to change how she thinks. She was raised conservatively with Christian values and IS a Christian. She will come around. But we can't force her- just keep talking to her.
My youngest has said the same. Like it or not young people hear the media and what the media says just seems so much cooler/smarter/more informed than what dumb mom and dad say. She was raised conservative Christian but I think all kids around her age kind of test things as they gain independence. I did ask her this morning to reconsider her stance if Trump gets back in and things get better and she said she would. I think our young people are just super demoralized.
If you look at the lastest video from Amanda Grace and Clay Clark from just a few days ago? Clay Clark took all these compiled Kim Clement videos to Trump and sat with him to watch them. The one that gets me is that the 2013 prophecy that says, "There is a man named Mr. Clark and a man named Donald, and you're watching me right now wondering, 'Could He be talking to me?' Yes- yes I am!" And according to them, DJT said, "Is he talking about us right now?" It blows my mind to think that God was showing him a moment ten years in the future.
Also a 2007 video speaking about Trump as a trumpet and then President where DJT remarked that he seriously wasn't considering running then, so how did this guy know? It just gives me chills.
God bless this sweet lady.
Sorry if I did this wrong. I have never made a post here, only occasionally commented. This is for the Trump family and tomorrow’s caucus. I just thought some here might want to agree in prayer.
I had prayed for his release. This makes me so sad.
I feel like you are trying to bait me into arguing, which I won't do. If you are interested,or curious, though, I would suggest looking into what it meant in Genesis when it says Noah was perfect in his generations. It's a rabbit hole :).
But I will still say, YES, God is kind, loving, merciful and graceful towards us. 1000% YES, He is absolutely good.
God is absolutely good. I feel like I have to step up and defend Him here. The Bible talks a lot about how kind, loving, forgiving, merciful and graceful He is towards us.
God created the entire universe so that we could be with Him forever. Man was not created to die- we were eternal- but death came into the world through the sin of one man. Our spirit man is eternal and we will spend our eternity somewhere- either with God or separated from Him. It's truly just our choice where that will be.
The first sin did separate us from God. It seems unfair, yes. We are born with a sinful nature- like being born infected with a disease. But God provided us a free cure- a free way back to Him via the sacrificial death of His own Son. The only human to never sin was killed in the most painful, humiliating and scornful way I can imagine, and He went to that death willingly. Jesus laid His life down to buy us all back to the Father. To me, THAT is unfair- the most unfair thing I can imagine. And yet the Word tells us that for the joy that was set before Him (ie, bringing us a way to get back to God), Jesus endured the cross.
I don't know why some of us are born more priveleged than others. But we are all offered the same, free path back to God. Just to accept what Jesus did. Believe He is God's son, sinless, and that He was resurrected. There is a lot more to Christian life than just this, but once you have that down, read your Bible, and Holy Spirit will help you grow. It's not a bunch of rules, it's a relationship. And no matter what people tell you, the Christian walk is something you are learning for your whole life- no Christian is perfect or without issues they have to deal with.
If you are born in a place with no Christianity, and you are seeking God in your heart, He will find you. The Bible clearly says that if you look or seek, you WILL find. And He knows our hearts. And no matter what religious Christians might say, He does speak today. He's actively looking for those who will accept Him, wooing and calling us to Him all the time. For example, look at the testimony of Muslims who encounter Jesus in dreams. They are searching- truly searching- and God reaches out to them in a real way.
The thing that blows my mind as a Christian is that the God of all creation, who made the universe and sits outside of time and knows the end from the beginning and knows me inside and out? He LOVES me. He died for ME. He delights in me, and I can go talk to Him any time I want to. The Bible tells me I am free to come boldly to Him, that He is just and faithful to forgive and cleanse me when I fall short and confess my shortcomings, and that He is my ever present help. That He will fight for me, provide for me. The Word even says that He sings over me. Not because of anything I have done or earned, but just because He is love and He loves me.
So no, our God is not a mean God. I sure pray you get to experience how truly wonderful and kind He is :).
Prayers for your stepdad and family.
My husband and I have seven kids together. We've been married 30 years and they're all mine and all his (no half siblings or step siblings, etc.) We have been faithful to each other, no drugs, no issues with alcohol or gambling or whatever vices people can have. We have always been homeowners, taxpayers, and we created and still have a successful business (although nowadays things with it aren't great- our goal now is just to survive until better times.) All this to say that we weren't what society might consider "bad"- except for having aLL ThOsE kIdS.
People think it's fine to ridicule you in public if you have a bunch of kids and aren't in some kind of religious group like the Amish. We are just regular Christians and we heard some of the absolute ugliest things AT CHURCH from other Christians. Because we had seven kids. My own family was embarrassed of us because we had so many kids, so much so that my Grandmother wouldn't tell her friends how many kids we had. Again- we were successful in every other aspect of our lives. We never had any kind of assistance or had to ask for people to help us support our kids. As a mom I was always careful that everyone was well groomed with nice clothing, etc. We haven't always been super well off but we always took care of ourselves. I was always a stay at home mom, even before the business took off. We gardened, we canned, we raised livestock for meat and milk and eggs, we homeschooled, we did not vax after the first child, and WE. WERE. HAPPY.
The Bible literally calls kids a blessing. Right now we struggle a bit with some of our grown kids (mainly I think due to their ages- early 20s- and the general lack of hope that generation feels right now. I'm believing for better times and restored relationships in the future.) I do not regret my big family and I'm glad to see that someone is calling for larger families like this to become more normalized again.
Also might try Dr. Christopher's infection formula. It's herbal and comes in capsule form so you might have to mix it with something like yogurt or a smoothie to get it in a toddler, but it works really well.
People here should pay attention to Elijah Streams even if you are not a Christian or whether you believe in the prophetic part. They have so many people on, like Jan Halper-Hayes, Kash Patel, Eric Trump, etc. Imo they've done a wonderful job of waking up a lot of sleeping Christians to the reality of what is going on. And they've been on this literally since the day after the stolen election with zero breaks.
I will pray for you and your family. And I am so sorry you're going through this, because this is such a painful thing to deal with. Please don't beat yourself up over it- because I think it's not just doing for your kids that produces this kind of division- it does play a part but I know so many families who have done more for their kids and don't see the same issues, and a few who have done far less and are also dealing with it. I think it's just that a lot of younger people these days feel entitled for whatever reason.
My husband and I both grew up and did what we did with our lives with literally zero support from our own families. We pulled ourselves up out of grinding poverty with our business, and when I say we were super poor, I mean it. Our business was 100% given to us by God and He's helped us so much. So I have faith that things will get better as far as that goes. He hasn't brought us this far to fail now.
We did the things we did for our kids- misguided or not- with the best of intentions and to hopefully keep them from struggling as hard as we did. I felt like God had been so generous with us, so we could- in turn- be generous with our kids. And as a woman who grew up without support of any kind from family, it was a true joy for me to be able to do for my own kids. I don't know if that makes any sense or not. But you can bet 1000% that our pocketbooks are closed now, and will stay closed for the very reasons you mention above. I also have faith that God can turn these grown kids' attitudes around just like He can turn our business around, though. I'm currently working on ensuring that I don't hang onto bitterness over how everything has turned out, and that's a really tough thing.
I will pray for you and your family as well as OP's. I understand so well what you are dealing with. We are in a similar situation and I have posted about that here before. We'll have been in business for ourselves for 17 years next month. Until 2021 we saw steady and sustained growth. 2021 would have been the year that my husband and I finally were able to take some of our proceeds and use them fully on ourselves (ie, kids were grown, weddings done, etc.). We were planning on rapidly paying off the rest of our mortgage and were building up our savings in anticipation of a kind of semi retirement in a few years.
It seems like the day they installed Biden our sales tanked and have never recovered. We're probably doing a quarter of what we were doing in 2020 at this point. On top of this, our state implemented $15/hr minimum wage, so where we HAD been paying our employees (all family) a competitive wage for our area, we were suddenly just barely competing with fast food wages. We kept our kids employed far longer than we should have with the way our sales were going (probably 18 months too long) and fully depleted our personal savings to do so. When it came time for us to downsize, our kids despised us for nOt BeInG GoOd BuSiNeSs PeOpLe.If we had only been smarter and less stingy we'd not have put ourselves in that situation (not sure how they considered us stingy when we provided them with vehicles and jobs and school money and wedding money and helped with honeymoons, etc.- if you can't tell, I'm a iittle bitter about this part of our story and I hate the division that our financial issues have caused almost more than I hate the actual financial issues themselves.)
We've done a lot to stay afloat. Sold our home, lived in our work building for a while- we did buy another home, are working from there now, and are selling our commercial building. Sold off things we'd needed as homeowners like our tractor. We have one vehicle and are thinking of selling it and buying a beater so that we can get a little extra cash. We do NOTHING extra, I've not had a haircut in over a year. I have clothing with holes worn in them because I've not bought clothes in so long. It's devastating to work for so many years to build a business- when it's small and just you and family, you really pour your heart and soul into your work- and watch it just wither despite all your best efforts. We have one employee now and laying her off will be the next thing we have to do. My husband and I no longer pay ourselves a regular paycheck. Bidenomics, lol.
I DO believe that things will get better and that they can be good again if we can stay afloat long enough. It's been my thought that if we can just downsize enough to get through, things will be good again. But I'll admit- I'm almost 50 years old and the thought of starting over and rebuilding is just almost too much.
My biggest suggestion is prayer. I'm a Christian and I have seen God step in and save us at the last minute more than once. Praying for everyone in this thread.
Imagine if Trump said something similar lol.
It was 1999 the last time we had a hospital birth, so my information may be out of date. But the one shot that seemed totally unnecessary to me was HepC. At that time in our area they gave it to newborns before they left the hospital. HepC is spread through dirty needles/sexual contact, etc. Just seemed like an odd thing to require for newborns with parents who don't use drugs or test positive for other diseases, etc. I should add that we only vaxxed our first two kids partially- had to really fight for that at the time- and after that we skipped them all entirely. But this was one of the things that we learned that got us thinking about the accepted vax schedule.
I use Benadryl for skin reactions (allergic to things like bee and wasp stings, poison ivy, etc) and literally need it to survive the summer and be able to sleep without misery.
I looked into this lady and you are right. This meme is incorrect. I found her on YouTube and listened to some of what she has to say, specifically about gender issues in kids, and what she essentially tells them is that God made you the way you are for a reason- that He made you WITH a purpose and FOR a purpose just the way you are. Very much the opposite of what is inferred here.
When I google this lady's name plus the title of the "facing my gender identity" header in the meme above, it takes me to that blog post but it's by a lady named Hope, not Kathy Koch, from a WordPress blog called "Hope's Passage".
I see that Kathy Koch has said she struggled at times feeling like she fit into the mold that society has placed on women- basically on how feminity should look- and I can understand her feeling that way as a younger person since she's so tall and big. But she hasn't ever suggested she felt like she was the wrong gender.
A little story- I swapped schools in junior high many years ago. When I was in the office getting my paperwork straightened out, what I thought was a man walked in. I turned and saw what looked like a big, tall man in a ladies sweater with a dress shirt with really pretty Peter Pan collar underneath it, and dress shoes with frilly socks. Except it wasn't a man, it was a lady teacher. She was the tallest and broadest woman I had ever seen! But she was a lady- she looked a lot like Kathy Koch as far as size and shape, and even sounded like her with a deep voice. But she was a sweet lady, who ended up getting married and having a family not long after I started school there. Today if people saw that teacher, I know they would assume she's a man, but she wasn't.