Re: Time to Give Mark Driscoll a Sabbatical?

I mean noble in the sense that you're staying home for the best for your
family instead of for the best for yourself, playing off the idea that Mark
seems to assume to men who stay home are either lazy or selfish. In that
sense, I'd call what you do noble, the path less traveled, putting others
first, etc.

I completely assume we'll see Peter T. Chattaway as a fulltime cinema critic
again some time down the road. It may be awhile, but I have no doubt about
these things. It seems my own kids were little just yesterday, and now my
daughter is married, they're preparing to close on their first  house, and
she's growing her own first child. Time passes faster than we realize. I
bought my first pair of reading glasses this week, and I'll be a grandpa on
Valentine's Day.

Johne Cook
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On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Peter T. Chattaway <
petert-LOVM4QxV+tDq6eQxt3vRmLDks+cytr/[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Oct 2010, Johne Cook wrote:
>
>> Mark's interpretation tortures the gist of what Paul wrote in his letters;
>> men shouldn't determine to avoid work and stay home for the sole purpose of
>> sponging off their wimmenfolk. That's not Peter's case, where staying home
>> is a noble (and pragmatic) sacrifice on behalf of his kids and his
>> family-at-large.
>>
>
> I'm leery of calling what I do a "sacrifice", much less a "noble" one, but
> "pragmatic" is certainly right.  My wife has a unionized job with a pretty
> good extended health benefits plan, etc. etc., and she was making about
> twice as much at that job as I was with my freelance writing.  It just
> seemed natural to *both* of us that I should be the one to stay home with
> the kids, once she had finished her year of maternity leave.  (Plus, for the
> first few years at least, a fair bit of the work that I did was work that I
> could do from home anyway, though I often worked on it 'til three in the
> morning because I had to wait until the kids were in bed.)
>
> Plus, for whatever it's worth, I think I'm a little more organized than my
> wife (which is not to say that *things* are necessarily more organized
> around here... what I mean is that I compartmentalize better, in all senses
> of the word, both pro and con), and the fact that I stay home with the kids
> has been helpful, in this regard, as I juggle the schedules of our son's
> autism-therapy workers and fill out all the various bits of paperwork that
> are needed by the preschool, the government, the health-insurance company,
> etc., etc., etc.  (Side note: a few years ago, my wife and I were going
> through a stack of her papers, and we found a few tax-rebate cheques that
> had expired months earlier.  It boggled my mind, because the moment *I* get
> a cheque, I stick it in my wallet because *you never know* when you might
> happen to walk past an ATM next...)
>
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