What are you currently reading?

[MilesChristi]

It's set in the same world as the musical Brigadoon.

Any good?  I need a summer novel.

Decent if you like young adult books.  The main character's friend is a little annoying (though I hear she's better in book two).

The world in the books is more modern than in the movies -- they have taken new technology, food, etc, every 100 years.  So they have sushi and pizza but live in castles.  It's fantasy, that's for sure, and a bit of wish fulfillment.  :p

Pizza must suck in this mythical world...

[maryslittlegarden]

It's set in the same world as the musical Brigadoon.

Any good?  I need a summer novel.

Decent if you like young adult books.  The main character's friend is a little annoying (though I hear she's better in book two).

The world in the books is more modern than in the movies -- they have taken new technology, food, etc, every 100 years.  So they have sushi and pizza but live in castles.  It's fantasy, that's for sure, and a bit of wish fulfillment.  :p

Pizza must suck in this mythical world...

Wonder if Domino's delivers?

[MilesChristi]

It's like my friend used to say...at least it's not papa johns

[OCLittleFlower]

It's set in the same world as the musical Brigadoon.

Any good?  I need a summer novel.

Decent if you like young adult books.  The main character's friend is a little annoying (though I hear she's better in book two).

The world in the books is more modern than in the movies -- they have taken new technology, food, etc, every 100 years.  So they have sushi and pizza but live in castles.  It's fantasy, that's for sure, and a bit of wish fulfillment.  :p

Pizza must suck in this mythical world...

The main characters seem to think it tastes good -- then again, brick oven pizza really is the way to go, and without electricity that's what they've got.  *shrug*

The modern/Western-style Sushi got more of a side-eye from me than the pizza. 

[LausTibiChriste]

Hold On to Your Kids


I have no kids but thought it'd be an interesting read regardless.

[Bonaventure]

The dissents from yesterday.

[MundaCorMeum]

Hold On to Your Kids


I have no kids but thought it'd be an interesting read regardless.

I've read this book.  I thought it was a very good book.


I should clarify...overall I though it was very good.  The authors aren't Catholic, and so I didn't agree with everything in there.  But, it an was interesting read

[LausTibiChriste]

Hold On to Your Kids


I have no kids but thought it'd be an interesting read regardless.

I've read this book.  I thought it was a very good book.


I should clarify...overall I though it was very good.  The authors aren't Catholic, and so I didn't agree with everything in there.  But, it an was interesting read

Thanks Munda. What did you agree with? What didn't you agree with? I vaguely remember being recommended it on a Catholic site, but can't remember which one.

[MundaCorMeum]

Hold On to Your Kids


I have no kids but thought it'd be an interesting read regardless.

I've read this book.  I thought it was a very good book.


I should clarify...overall I though it was very good.  The authors aren't Catholic, and so I didn't agree with everything in there.  But, it an was interesting read

Thanks Munda. What did you agree with? What didn't you agree with? I vaguely remember being recommended it on a Catholic site, but can't remember which one.

I agreed with the fact that part of the problem with today's society, especially youth, is that we are far too peer oriented.  It fosters a lack of due respect for proper authority. 

I remember the author saying that if parents teach proper order with their children, with respect to adults and peers, then children will automatically want to please thier parents and not want to disappoint them.  So,  they neglect to take into account the effect of original sin, even on children.  I think he also only agrees with positive reinforcemt with kids, and no punishment.  Personally, I disagree with that.  Kids need to learn that bad  choices = bad consequences and good choices = good consequences.

[LausTibiChriste]

Interesting...thanks Munda. I only got through the first chapter, but I look forward to the rest 

[Chestertonian]

I remember the author saying that if parents teach proper order with their children, with respect to adults and peers, then children will automatically want to please thier parents and not want to disappoint them.  So,  they neglect to take into account the effect of original sin, even on children.  I think he also only agrees with positive reinforcemt with kids, and no punishment.  Personally, I disagree with that.  Kids need to learn that bad  choices = bad consequences and good choices = good consequences.

that is going to be the pitfall of any secular book

i liked the book as well.. it matched a lot of my own observations. 

as for reinforcent and original sin, i think that being a model of respect by respecting young people goes a long way in preventing transgressions in the first place, hence st don bosco's preventive system

:  "There are two systems for educating the young that have been used throughout time – preventive and repressive. The repressive system consists of making the subjects learn the law, then watching them to find the transgressors and inflicting the merited punishment wherever necessary...

Different and, I would say opposite, is the preventive system. This consists of making the regulations of an institute be known and then watching the pupils in such a way that they always have over them the attentive eye of the headmaster and his assistants. They, like loving fathers, talk and guide them through every event, giving advice and lovingly correcting them. This is like saying: put the pupils in the position of being unable to commit errors. This system is based on Reason, Religion and, above all, Love; it therefore rejects any form of violent punishment and tries to distance itself from the same thoughtless punishment. It would seem that this is preferable..."

negative reinforcement may still be necessary but at don bosco outlines a lot of guidelines for correction and discipline that are respectful

http://salesians.org.au/resources/doc_download/34-the-preventive-system-in-the-education-of-the-young

[MilesChristi]

Faustus by Marlowe

[red solo cup]

Raised Catholic by Ed Stivender

[Clare]

Just about to read C S Lewis's Cosmic Trilogy again, which I first read last year.

[LausTibiChriste]

Raised Catholic by Ed Stivender

What's it about and how is it?