Awhile back, I mentioned that since Bethel was using only one word (never two), I didn’t require her to say please when she asked for something. (i.e., I had her say what she wanted: “Milk”) As long as she wasn’t whining for it, or crying, that was sufficient. I usually repeated her one word along […]
Whining and Complaining
Several observations: I’ve caught myself several times responding to my children’s whiny voices with a whiny voice of my own. Sigh. Maybe I need to start work on myself! Second, Lee and I found out after a number of times instructing David not to complain any more that he had no idea what complaining was. […]
teaching along the way
(in light of the previous post) Today, several times we talked about God seeing everything. When I prayed for breakfast, I told God thank you that he could see us eating breakfast. Later, as we were driving home from the grocery store, I asked David if God could see us in our van, and he […]
The Next Spiritual Truth
I think the next spiritual truth we’re going to teach David is the omniscience of God. Today,he was being quite unkind to his sister, and I was asking him questions about his actions. He wouldn’t admit that he was being unkind. Maybe I should have asked, “Was God pleased with how you talked to your […]
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