ya know how i've been talking about

debate alot lately? well, i thought i would ask the question that i'm supposed to research, on my blog! so if anyone has any opinions PLEASE state them in the comments!!!!!!!!

ok, well i guess it's not really a question....it's more a point that i'm supposed to prove. (oh yeah, in case you haven't been reading my blog long, the subject of debate is women in leadership. i'm on the team that is for women in leadership.) anyway, the point i'm supposed to prove is that 'gender doesn't determine whether or not one is a good leader.' also, i'm supposed to find examples of bad leaders in both genders. we're trying to prove that leaders of both genders are needed. a quote i found that we are using in our debate is:

"The way a woman's brain works, with respect to making decisions, is significantly different from how a man's does. Men tend to be more "mechanical" in their processing, whereas women take more of an intuitive approach. By intuition, a woman can more often come to quick, ready decisions.
Men however, tend to critically analyse and go through a whole process when making a decision. Often, this amounts to the moment being lost, by the time the decision has been made. Of course, in the case of both men and women, there are always exceptions. Nonetheless, both types of leaders are necessary: someone who can act on reliable instinct so the moment isn't lost, and another who will perform lengthy analysis before arriving at a decision.
Furthermore, nature positions women for leadership roles by the ultimate fact that they are the cradlers of creation. "

-Dr. Asquith Reid, Clinical Psychologist

i thought that was a very interesting quote. so we are trying show that quick decision-makers AND more analytical decision-makers are needed.

if anyone has any good ideas or points or just opinons, please share them! also if anyone has any examples of good OR bad male or female leaders, PLEASE tell me about them on the comments!!! thank you!!!

~beth

sorry i haven't posted

in a while. today i had speech and debate. it was pretty cool. i prob wouldn't be able to stand speech class if i knew i had to give a speech, but since i don't have to, i'm not sitting there dreading it. so that makes it somewhat enjoyable. we had to do a quiz on different types of communication. if ur score was 55 or lower, you are pretty comfortable with communication. if it was 83 or higher, you have a pretty bad fear. if it is in between then u r kinda normal. my score was 94. isn't that sad?! the 4 different types of communication skills: speaking in groups, communication in meetings, conversation skill, and public speaking. my least favorite is public speaking, but the only one that doesn't make my stomach flip-flop is conversation (one on one). and i'm fine with group speaking if it's with my close friends, but with ppl that idk very well, it's very awkward and scary. like in debate club, i didn't want to share my info b/c that would mean that the attention would be on me and i would have to talk! oh no! i know it sounds stupid, but it scares me to death!

sorry about talking so much about my fear. i'll talk about....um.....ben's bday! it was yestderday. he turned eleven! for his bday he got $20 from mamaw, a cd player from gma and gpa. a pack of redemption cards from mommy and daddy. and also a jacket and 2 pairs of sweat pants. then he got $20 from ANT janet. then he went to his best friend's house. he had a lot of fun. but now he has a fever! so does my mom. i'm hoping daddy and i won't get it. and i also hope mommy is feeling alot better by tomorrow b/c for mamaw's bday we are going to a play and out to lunch! so i hope we'll still get to do it!

yesterday i got my hair cut! i took some pics of it, so i'll have to post them. it's just difficult b/c i can't resize pictures on this computer, so i have to do it on my parents' computer. but i'll still do it.

ok, well i've probably bored everyone to death so i'll stop now, ipml lol =)

big, better, best, speech and debate, and yardsale

ok, on friday like i said in my last post, i had speech and debate club. it was actually pretty cool. i especially liked debate. i'm the researcher on our team. at first i was like, "oh no! i'm gonna be the only one doing research?!" but thankfully everyone on our team is doing research. also, when mrs w put us on our teams, i was kinda freaking out cuz i only knew one person on the team and i don't know her that well. yeah, i can't stand doing things like this when i don't know anyone else doing it. but it'll be fine, it'll be a great opportunity to get to know other people. i think i'm really gonna enjoy debate, i'm still not sure about speech though. but i'm not doing any speeches cuz mrs. w said if i did speech club i wouldn't have to do any speeches. so i'm gonna hold her to that. she said that bri, kat, and jaymee would be able to talk me into it, but i don't give into peer pressure =)
so that was friday afternoon, friday nite was big, better, best. it was soooooo much fun! my mom drove for our team. on our team were me, laura, kat, and zena. the first thing of course was a quarter, and then we went to jaymee's house and got a little flower pot. next we went to matt's house and got a big cable spool (i guess that's what it's called). then we went to another person's house and got a computer (well, it was everything except the monitor). finally we went to one more person's house and got a big, awesome road sign that said '24'. it was pretty cool, but not good enough to win. there were three catagories to win, biggest, bestest, and most unique. the team that bri, erin, and jaymee were on won for the biggest, they had a recliner. then the best was a special phone thingie that was pretty much brand new. and the most unique thing was a plaque from zambia, africa. that was neat. but i think the most unique thing should have been the frozen bat. yeah, a frozen bat! as in the animal bat, not a baseball bat. yeah, it was dead and frozen, it was awesome! yeah, last nite was sooooo much fun, and we got a few of the things that people didn't want and we sold them in the yardsale.
the yardsale today was sooooo much fun!!!!!! it was awesome! we made alot of money to go towards our missions trip to mexico. bri, laura, and i got to do all of it together, it was fun. i think that my mom and mamaw and i earned enough money to cover a lot of the cost of the shots we have to get.
i'll post more later! i'm just gonna start signing off 'ipml' (i'll post more later) lol =) so, ipml!

speech and debate

wow, definitely not things i'm good at (especially speech). but i'm doing a speech and debate class at church. it's a homeschool group thing. the speech part i'm not exactly thrilled about, but the debate part sounds pretty cool. tomorrow will be my second class. alot of my friends did it last year, but this is my first year. the subject for the debate is 'should women hold political offices?' yeah, when mrs. w announced the subject everyone goes, "oooooooohh!" it was funny. yeah, i'm sure there will be some very strong opinions, but i'm not really sure yet. i did some research on it today, but i still really don't know. i would say that i think women should definitely be able to hold political offices, but i'm not really sure what God's opinion on that is. that's what's really important. i must say that sometimes it seems unfair that the Bible says that men are head over women, but i also am kinda glad that i don't have the responsibility that men do. i mean, i would be so upset if i actually thought that since man was created first, he's supposed to be the head of the home, only men should be pastors, etc. it meant that i (being a girl) wasn't as important to God as guys are. but i know that God loves me just as much as he loves any guy. and He loves any guy just as much as He loves me. it is a very tough subject though, i think. i'm glad i'm just gonna be doing the research for one of the teams, and not the actual debating. =)

oh yeah, i found this awesome blog today, it has a post about this subject and i think it's interesting. (read the comments as well, i found them even more interesting than the post itself!) ok, here it is: splinters of silver