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THURSDAY. OCTOBER 10. 2013 PICKENS COUNTY PROGRESS PAGE 19A
Operation Christmas Child special event
An amazing story you won 7 want to miss
By Wanda Payne
Local Operation Christmas
Child connect volunteer
Growing up in the throes of
an unstable Rwandan govern
ment, Alex Nsengimana experi
enced first-hand the travesties of
his nation’s genocide.
“The two people who were
very important in my life and
who took care of me were taken
away from me,” Nsengimana
said of his uncle and grand
mother. “They were killed in
front of me.”
Nsengimana, whose mother
died several years before the
massacre, was 7 years old, lost
and alone. By the grace of God,
Nsengimana said, he escaped
death in a conflict that resulted in
the slaying of hundreds of thou
sands of people, with some esti
mates putting the number killed
at 1 million. Fleeing for his life,
Alex escaped gunmen when he
fell and they took him for dead.
In 1995, Nsengimana found a
bright spot during a dark time.
He was living in a Rwandan or
phanage with 250 other children
when Operation Christmas Child
shoe boxes arrived. “In my box
there were school supplies, toi
letries and little toys.” Two of the
items stand out in Nsengimana’s
memory - a folding comb he
kept for years afterward and a
candy cane. The children had
never seen candy canes before
and were pleasantly surprised at
the sweet taste when they popped
them into their mouths.
“The boxes kind of communi
cated to us that we were not for
gotten, and we were loved,” he
said. “I found hope.”
Nsengimana, now 26 and liv
ing in Minnesota, will graduate
seminary this coming spring.
Come meet this joyful young
man and hear how an Operation
Christmas Child shoe box
changed his life. The event will
take place this Saturday, Oct. 12,
at 2 p.m. at Atco Baptist Church,
20 Parmenter Street, Cartersville,
Ga.
Primitive weapons deer hunting season opens Oct. 12
Hunters looking to pursue
deer with firearms that harken
back to a different time will have
their chance Oct. 12-18 during
the week-long primitive weapons
deer himting season. During last
year’s primitive weapons season,
more than 45,000 hunters took
home more than 10,500 deer rep
resenting about three percent of
Georgia’s total deer harvest.
“The primitive weapons deer
season provides hunters an op
portunity to hunt with traditional
or inline black powder firearms,
or to continue hunting with
archery gear,” said John W. Bow
ers, chief of the Game Manage
ment Section. “It is a chance to
‘get in the woods’ with a differ
ent type of firearm prior to the
opening of the more traditional
modem firearms deer season.”
Being young is a bonus dur
ing primitive weapons season!
Youth under 16 years of age may
hunt deer with any legal deer
firearm Oct. 12-18, including
during any wildlife management
area primitive weapons hunt.
More than one million acres
of public hunting land is avail
able to hunters in Georgia, in
cluding more than 100
state-operated wildlife manage
ment areas. Many of these areas
offer special hunts throughout
the season, including primitive
weapons hunts. Dates and loca
tions for these hunts are available
in the 2013-14 Georgia Hunting
Seasons and Regulations guide.
An online copy of the Regula
tions guidebook and WMA maps
can be found at www.gohuntge-
orgia.com/hunt ing/regulations
During primitive weapons
season, hunters may use archery
equipment, muzzleloading shot
guns (20 gauge or larger) and
muzzleloading firearms (.44 cal
iber or larger) to pursue white-
tails.
Hunters are allowed a season
bag limit of 10 antlerless deer
and two antlered deer (one of the
two antlered deer must have a
minimum of four points, one
inch or longer, on one side of the
antlers). Special regulations
apply to archery-only counties
and extended archery season
areas. Counties in the Metro At
lanta area (Clayton, Cobb,
DeKalb, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwin
nett and Rockdale) offer either-
sex archery deer hunting Sept.
14-Jan. 31. Hunters may harvest
deer of either-sex during the
primitive weapons season.
All hunters, including archers,
must wear at least 500 square
inches of daylight fluorescent or
ange above the waist during
primitive weapons season.
Scopes and other optical sighting
devices are legal for muzzleload
ing firearms and archery equip
ment.
To pursue deer in Georgia,
hunters must have a valid hunt
ing license, big game license and
a current deer harvest record. If
hunting on a WMA, a WMA li
cense is required. Licenses can
be purchased online at www.go-
huntgeorgia. com/licenses-per-
mits-passes, by phone at
1-800-366-2661 or at a license
agent (list of agents available on
line).
For more information on deer
hunting seasons and regulations,
visit www.gohuntgeorgia.com/
hunting/regulations
SCHOOLS OUT
BASEBALL ACADEMY
and
Alan Horne
& State Farm
have teamed up to offer a
Fall Baseball Clinic
Monday, October 14 th
9 am -1 pm
Cost: $25
Roper Park • Field 1
Ages 10 and under
Drinks and fruit are provided, but please bring a sack lunch.
Cleats are optional, but baseball pants are suggested.
Space is limited, so please pre-register to secure your spot by
emailing powerhouseba@outlook.com or call John at
404-384-9101.
Parenting expert offers advice
Parents aren’t required to explain
“Explanations invite
pushback, and push-
back is argument”
By John Rosemond
Copyright 2013, John K.
Rosemond
Q: My 5-year-old daughter
has developed a bad habit of ar
guing with me whenever I refuse
her something, anything. Believe
me when I tell you she is relent
less. She will continue to argue
until I put her in her room, but as
soon as I let her out she starts up
again. I shared this with a thera
pist friend who told me that my
daughter is trying to manipulate
me, to control the relationship.
She said to just continue putting
her in her room whenever it hap
pens and it will eventually stop.
Do you agree?
A: Since you are not in a for
mal relationship with this thera
pist, since she’s a friend, I can
answer your question: No, I most
definitely do not agree. At age 5,
your daughter’s brain has not de
veloped the ability to con
sciously, with malice
aforethought, manipulate some
one. That very sociopathic ability
Dr. John Rosemond
does not develop on average
until age 12 or so.
Your daughter is arguing with
you for the same three reasons all
children argue with their parents:
First, you explain yourself; sec
ond, you try to get her to agree
with your explanation; third, she
throws down the proverbial
gauntlet and you pick it up. I’ll
take each of these in turn.
Explanations invite pushback,
and pushback is argument. When
your daughter asks for some
thing, it’s one thing to simply say
“No.” It’s quite another to go on
and on about why you are saying
“No.” You tell your daughter, for
example, that you’re not going to
buy her a new Princess Fantastic
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doll because she has enough of
them already and they cost too
much anyway. Your daughter re
sponds with a rebuttal as in, “But
Mom, I only have five and be
sides, this is the one everyone’s
been waiting for and all my
friends are getting it and besides,
it doesn’t cost nearly as much as
that new washing machine you
and Dad bought last week.”
You then tell your daughter
that the fact that everyone is get
ting the new doll isn’t reason
enough to pay that much money
for it and, yes, five is enough,
and where the new washing ma
chine is concerned, that was
something the family needed, not
something you simply wanted.
And your daughter comes back
with...and the game is on.
Your objective in this game of
back-and-forth is to get your
daughter to say what no child has
ever said: “Wow Mom! When
you explain yourself like that I
can’t help but agree with you! Of
course I don’t need another
Princess Fantastic doll, and of
course need and want are two en
tirely different things, and of
course I have enough dolls as it
is. Thank you Mom, for taking
the time to help me understand
all of this. You’re a really super
Mom!” Now that’s pretty silly of
you, isn’t it?
Lastly, you said your daughter
has a bad habit of arguing with
you. I disagree. It’s YOU who
has the bad habit of picking up
the gauntlet whenever she throws
it down. The way to not pick up
the gauntlet is to (1) say “No”
and nothing more; (2) when your
daughter demands to know why
or why not, say, “Because I said
so.” And then (3) turn aroimd and
walk away, leaving your daugh
ter to stew in her own juices. Our
great-grandmothers were on to
something you know.
Family psychologist John
Rosemond answers parents'
questions on his website at
www. rosemond. com
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Homecoming service this Sunday, October 13, at 11:00 AM, celebrating
“The Musical Heritage of Mt. Zion”