If you are an adult, you most likely were an adolescent first. That doesn't make adolescents any easier for me to tolerate. Earlier this afternoon I read the blog of a supposedly seventeen-year-old. I'm not sure why I say supposedly unless it's becuse i've learned to be skeptical of anything I come across on the internet, as the writings had all the earmarks of those written by an adolescent.
This particular young person, Alexis Rousseau although she states that "Rousseau" is not her actual surname, is not a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints but claims to know a great deal about our church. She claims to have many relatives who belong to or church. ((I'm not a Mormon but some of my best friends are. wink wink)) Whatever!
Miss "Rousseau" made the mistake of taking on someone whom I hold in highest esteem, who is Sister Jessica Beagley. Sister Beagley is a Stake Primary President, yet this little know-nothing seventeen-year-old feels free to criticize her as though Sister Beagley is one of Miss "Rousseau's" peers.
Jessica Beagley is a shining example of motherhood to which we all should aspire. The very fact that she has adopted and has been sealed in a Temple of the Lord to three Russian orphans is evidence by itself of her great compassion for children. Miss "Rousseau" thinks she knows better than Sister Beagley how to discipline an orphan exhibiting the traits of Reactive Attachment Disorder. As if!!!
Alexis "Rousseau" needs to be slapped. I don't know who her parents are, but they must rein this child in before she does more damage than she has already done. If I had more time I would start a "Slap Alexis!" campaign. Children and teens need to repect their elders who are also their betters in every sense of the word. Or even better, perhaps this young Alexis needs a dose of hot sauce and a cold shower herself.
Mr. and Mrs. "Rouseau" if you're reading get your child under control before someone else does it for you.
Oh. You mean the Mormon woman who mistook THIS command from Jesus "It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones."
ReplyDeleteFor "Blessed are those who give their little ones cold showers and use very hot pepper sauce in their mouths as a method of correction"?
They are not even close, are they?
Listen, here's a tip for you. I am considerably older than you, and with those extra years, has come considerable experience and some wisdom.
I saw the video Mrs Beagley caused to be made. It showed her to be an out of control parent using ugly, out of control methods to discipline a child. She may well not be a bad person, but she WAS doing bad things.
Do not, please, use her as a role model. In some jurisdictions the use of hot pepper sauce by Mormon women to discipline children has resulted in jail time.