Christian Homekeeping™: Motherhood; Mom Online

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Motherhood; Mom Online

I posted this 2 years ago, but with Mother's Day coming up in the near future, I wanted to draw our attention to Motherhood and all that it entails. I'm going to start with this poem because as Mothers, we MUST monitor our time spent online (or with any activity) and that we do not let it become a stronghold and take us away from our responsibilities. We must not let it become priority over God and our family! Of course, none of my blog readers have ever struggled with that, so I'm just preaching to the choir I guess.

Mom Online

I can hear them calling...so they are fine
"Where's Mom?" they are saying...Don't they know I'm online?

We're hungry I hear...I tell them please hush
Mom is online now, what is the rush?

They had a bite yesterday...when the phone lines were out
These kids will drive you crazy, Oh look, a pout

I dispense bowls of cereal, as I download a file
No time wasted here...I'm a true computerphile!

I check out the boards, and respond to a few...
"We're so bored", moan the children, "What can we do?"

I tell them to stop, and please do not whine...
Can't they see that their mother is busy online??

The grumbling continues as they wander about
"Mom's ALWAYS on the computer", together they shout

Unawares to me, they yank the phone line from the jack,
and say "Daddy's right, this is the way to get Mommy back!"

Author Unknown

4 comments:

Twinkle Mom said...: That's really very good and a very convicting poem how we can sometimes let Internet, Twitter, Facebook become TOO much focus in our lives...

The other day, we went to the doctor's office, due to the kids being sick, and I glance over and saw a nurse checking her Facebook profile, and honestly..that just doesn't leave me a comforting feeling.

Computers have become more idols these days and worse when we find ourselves saying to ourselves,"We have to blog, or have to twitter" and start finding justification or excuses why we have to...when that happens..maybe we HAVE to go to God's word instead then.; 9:28 AM
Christian Homekeeper said...: Very true Twinkle Mom and I probably would have said something if I saw a nurse on duty checking her facebook page! That is just not acceptable you know what I mean? Thanks for the comment! :)

Bev; 11:59 AM
Homequeen said...: Dear Bev,
I came across this article on your Blog just today.....now over two years since it was published.
I believe the situation regarding the social networking sites is a BIG problem in 2011.
I know of an English lady who has an account for her five year-old child!!! I can't believe it!
What's happened to friends, neighbours and family?
Cyberworld seems to influence some children more than their own parents do. Many times the parents are oblivious to what's going on in Cyberworld with their own children, and they are too involved with their own social networking sites also. To me this is shocking, frightening and an indication of the breakdown in traditional family values.
Do we really want to here all the details about so- and- so?
Do we need to see all the pictures?
Wouldn't it be better to sit down as a family and share what happened within the family that day?
The poem shared here today no doubt would make women look at what is going on in their own lives, and the lives of their children.
We are responsible for raising our children to love God - not the Internet.; 3:53 AM
Christian Homekeeper said...: Wonderful comment Homequeen! I agree with all you said and its taking over the US rapidly. Adults, teenagers and children alike are using all this technology, which utilizes the right-brain that they can't stand to do left-brain tasks - such as reading, i.e. the Bible. They are losing concentration, only able to hold their attention for short snippets and on and on. This will effect our world in a terrible way and the only the years to come will we realize just how bad it has. Gone will be the days when people can even sit still in a church and hear a 30 minutes message because they have programmed themselves to convenience, instant-gratification, over-familiarity and short snippets of everything that enduring the Word of God will be too much.

God help our world is my prayer!! Only when people stand up and sound alarms can others realize there is a problem. With much technology, comes a hefty price - what are we willing to pay?; 12:01 PM

Our Beliefs in a Nutshell

The Basics

- Trinitarian - God the Father, God the Son & God the Holy Spirit

- Salvation is through faith in Jesus Christ, not works

- Holy Spirit baptism is subsequent to the new birth and evidenced by speaking in tongues as the Spirit gives utterance

- Water baptism is to show an outward reflection of an inward work

- We must live holy lives and continue in the faith

- Our good works show others our walk with God (fruit tells you what kind of tree), not that works make us saved

The Family Unit

- Women's role is to be a keeper at home

- Husband is the leader or head of the home

- Marriage is for 2 to become one in a perfect union and for procreation to raise up children in the Lord (they are HIS reward)

- Keep our children unspotted from the world by training them up in the way they should go - we homeschool to instill these Godly values

- Abortion or devices that mimic it are murder in the sight of the Lord

Finances

- A tenth of ALL our increase goes to God; which has ordained the church to handle as it sees fit for the furtherance of the gospel

- We must be good stewards of all that God gives us - from money to taking care of this earth through recycling, living frugal and not wasting

- Not having a love of money or mindset to get rich but rather being thankful for what we have; contentment

- Trusting in God to supply ALL our needs, he will never fail, no matter the circumstance!

Modesty & Appearance

- CLEAR distinction of the sexes and attire of each: dresses for women and pants for men

- Long Hair is a woman's glory and her covering and sign of submission to her head and for the angels

- Attire must be modest: loose fitting, not revealing or showing of the thighs, etc.

- Showing shamefacedness and being chaste with an unpainted face or other adornments

- Not having masculine behavior as a woman but feminine and men are not to be effiminate but rather masculine - again CLEAR distinction of the sexes which God intended

Worldliness

- Not involving oneself in the entertainments of this world that have the appearance of evil; keep oneself unspotted from this world and its enticements

- Definitely not a part of worldly establishments such as bars, clubs and such like that are dens of sin and all manner of evil

- Loving the world and its fashions and mentality is strictly forbidden in the Bible - we must be separate and "come out from among them"

There is more but this would get pretty long if I included them all - so basically we believe the FULL gospel!

Quotes to Ponder

The objective in Christian homeschooling is not to teach children how to "deal with the real world." I do not want to teach my children how to merely survive this life. As believers in Christ, we are called to be overcomers! - HE magazine

The modest virgin, the prudent wife, and the careful matron, are much more serviceable in life than petticoated philosophers, blustering heroines, or virago queens. She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than ladies described in romances, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver, or their eyes. - Oliver Goldsmith

Long ago I ceased to count heads. Truth is usually in the minority in this evil world. - Charles Spurgeon

In a time of universal deceit, telling the TRUTH, is a revolutionary act . -George Orwell

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. -Winston Churchill

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

Christian mothers too often neglect their home-centered role for the empty promises of fulfillment in the workplace, while they warehouse their children in daycare centers. Parents send their children to secular schools where God is outlawed, and they allow them to watch trashy movies and listen to vile music—and hang out with those who do the same. After years of training in the ways of rebellion through godless schooling, debauched entertainment, and peer association, Christian parents are somehow surprised when their teenagers rebel, forsaking the God of their fathers.- Philip Lancaster

You are as much serving God in looking after your own children, and training them up in God's fear, and minding the house, and making your household a church for God, as you would be if you had been called to lead an army to battle for the Lord of hosts. - Charles Spurgeon

I’m very fond of men. But I don’t want to look like one. When women gave up their long skirts, they made a grave error. -Tasha Tudor

SECULARISM is a philosophy that claims that there is no God-or that if there is a God, He is irrelevant. HUMANISM essentially says that in the absence of God, humans can and should act as gods by judging, choosing, and defining what is right for themselves. The philosophy pervading the public education system combines these two philosophies into one.-Ken Ham

The true defining situation for a person is what they do when they are alone and don't have to do anything else. What do they do? Do they do frivolous things? That's when you define what you are. -Kevin Rollins, former CEO of DELL