Author: laranettle

Congratulations George and Brad

George Takei and his partner of 21 years have married over the weekend. George has been an active campaigner for marriage equality, so this news is especially joyful.

From George’s personal blog – here is a post written when the laws in California were changed.

Marriage is love, and George and Brad have lived for 21 years as beautiful examples of the best that marriage can offer – now they are finally able to enjoy the rights as well as the responsibilities that come with legal marriage.

Congratulations, I wish you many more years of happiness ahead.

Vegetarian Indian Cooking Class

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Simone and I went to the Muhglai Feast class today, and had a wonderful time.

Highly recommended – even if you’re not vegetarian.

We made Dahl Makhani, Palak Paneer, Malai Kofta, a spiced rice dish, a mint and yoghurt side dish, an onion side dish, naan, and a fabulous dessert.

Yum.

And then I came home and made congee for dinner for the first time.  I made it with dried shitake mushrooms, frozen peas and some vegetarian chinese sausage I had in the freezer, ginger, vegetarian chicken stock and broken rice.  I can see how I can improve it next time, but all in all it was quite yummy, and a pretty good lazy Sunday dinner.

Feeling Sick

Doing this parenting course has made me think a bit more about parenting theories, and this morning I came across two that I had never heard of before.

The first, promoted by the Ezzos, uses the bible to promote old testament rigidity on children. The link is to a site explaining why the Ezzo method is dangerous – not to the official site.

The second, promoted by the Pearls, is very similar, but quite shocking in its promotion of violence against children, even babies a few months old.

Here is an excerpt from an article on toddler taming –

So, when your child of any age starts throwing a tantrum, NEVER, NEVER… I repeat, NEVER give in to their demands. Your denial of their lust, coupled with a good stinging swat or two, will cause the child to see the futility and helplessness of his demands. When your child is convinced by your consistent response of enforcing negative consequences for negative behavior, he will cease his vain and tiresome behavior, employing some other means to achieve pleasure.

I feel sick. It’s revolting and shocking to me that these people are allowed to promote such dangerous ideas. This is NOT my idea of Christianity, any more that suicide bombers reflect true Islam.