Parenting children is always challenging and your always wondering if I am doing the right thing? This evening I come to the opinion that my daughter wanted to tell me how to be a parent! She had decided to discipline my middle daughter, by yelling at her and tormenting I calm down and told her to go to her room. I'll show her, I thought! But before I did, would brewed about it, how dare she give her Dad such a hard time. "Meany" she said and "I hate you!" came out of her lips!
Where did she learned that behavior, well i have to admit that all the bad words came from me and with all my faults they were coming thought my little little girl who wants to grown up so fast and who I wish she would stay that wonderful sweetheart I love!.
Nobody says parenting is easy, and the Lord doesn’t published a book on the subject, but when I figure I am making a mistake I asked the Lord to help me, in prayer.
So when tempers fly, you have to asked what is the right thing. I decided that she needed to humble herself and I needed to do the same. So this coming morning i making her do something she would would never suspect and that she was to wear a dress. Goodness you should have heard her howl over that one. My middle one loves wearing dresses. I felt their are times I need to do a soft punishment. So their you are. In today tween world wearing a dress would be to say the lease bad for her social life. Bad Daddy!
My unique punishment for my daughter is to wear a pink dress, shoes and in doing so realized that hitting or humiliating her sitter would lead her to a dress a day to wear to school for everyday she torments her sister. Is it the only punishment nope! But will get through to her? Most likely not! In the meantime, I discovered that maybe I need to pray with her more often and asked the Lord for more patience.
God willing we both learn something!
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