Beyond Buggies and Bonnets: True Amish Stories (Book) - 9/16/2025 7:55:58 AM
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The Birth to Five Book: Confident Childrearing Right from the Start (Book) - 7/2/2009 10:26:01 AM
This book will be so help full for Expectant mothers and plan Parenting
I would recommend this book for all parents EVEN NEW parents
This books answers questions from Home schooling to feeding this is a must read book for all parents even for Grand parents.
Whitney Grizzell
Amish Teens Today (Short Story) - 7/8/2015 2:21:05 PM
Thanks for your comments Ronald and Eva.
Ronald, you coined the phrase correctly, "a strange clash of cultures." I've observed that those who determine to leave find that living in our "English" culture has its own challenges, and I've been blessed to have helped some of them. They do practice "hard work and ingenuity" whether Amish or English.
Eva, oh they are pretty creative in circumventing the rules - whether they remain Amish or not.
Amish Teens Today (Short Story) - 7/8/2015 5:19:14 AM
Adolescents often challenge the beliefs and values of their parents. Sometimes they leave and never reconcile the differences, but more often they eventually adopt the same values and beliefs. It is no different with the Amish.
As far as the success of those former Amish, I have encountered many students from very foreign backgrounds have done very well in complex modern culture. I recall one of my graduate students, Columbus, who returned, flying first class with a lot of money for bribes after his MBA and law degree, to his village in Nigeria where he ran naked until he was 11 years old or so, to buy his father a bicycle--a prized possession for him in the village. A successful lawyer, Columbus came a long way in one generation by hard work and ingenuity.
My great-grandmother was Old Order Amish from Northern Indiana. The family owned a huge farm, dressed in the old ways, lived in a rustic house with handmade furnishings and had craft skills that were outstanding. When we visited when I was a child in the 1950s, I remember envying the boy about our age who had a operating miniature tractor (something I'd never seen before). They had electricity and modern farm equipment, drove Cadillacs and spent the winters in Florida. It seemed like a strange clash of cultures. They had apparently broken away from the cultish Amish already over 50 years ago.
My mother still speaks fondly of aunts and uncles there and has visited many times.
Ron
Amish Teens Today (Short Story) - 7/7/2015 1:04:17 PM
Rules are made to be broken, and if the general principles of being Amish are circumvented by some of the Amish people themselves, it's time to find happiness outside the cult.
Best wishes with your book.
