http://lysaterkeurst.com/2012/01/i-dont-want-to-raise-a-good-child/
i read this today and thought of my jack jack. i do always wonder if i am doing a good job raising him to be a good boy. when he asks why do i have to be a good boy? i say so you grow up to be a good man. i pray that he does. i believe that God will use his insistent personality for good one day.
this story just popped into my head...one day there was a dying roach in our hallway so instead of smacking it with a shoe (we didn't want to wake up the boys) johnny put a cup over it. so all day i told jack to go around the cup and when daddy gets home he will kill it. jack said, "don't kill it because God made it." how sweet is that?
lately jack has been saying that about a lot of things...
today i started singing the opening song from the cat and the hat show that comes on pbs. we were about to go to school. here's how our conversation went
me: here we go go go go on an adventure the thing-a-majiger is up and away.
jack: don't sing that.
me: why?
jack: because we don't have a thing-a-majiger
me: well we can pretend that our car is the thing-a-majiger
jack: no we can't because God made our car a camry!
i thought that was too funny!
anyway, i know i will pray for God to help jack behave and mind me and johnny a lot, but i will for sure add praying for God to help me raise a God- following adult!
i read this today and thought of my jack jack. i do always wonder if i am doing a good job raising him to be a good boy. when he asks why do i have to be a good boy? i say so you grow up to be a good man. i pray that he does. i believe that God will use his insistent personality for good one day.
this story just popped into my head...one day there was a dying roach in our hallway so instead of smacking it with a shoe (we didn't want to wake up the boys) johnny put a cup over it. so all day i told jack to go around the cup and when daddy gets home he will kill it. jack said, "don't kill it because God made it." how sweet is that?
lately jack has been saying that about a lot of things...
today i started singing the opening song from the cat and the hat show that comes on pbs. we were about to go to school. here's how our conversation went
me: here we go go go go on an adventure the thing-a-majiger is up and away.
jack: don't sing that.
me: why?
jack: because we don't have a thing-a-majiger
me: well we can pretend that our car is the thing-a-majiger
jack: no we can't because God made our car a camry!
i thought that was too funny!
anyway, i know i will pray for God to help jack behave and mind me and johnny a lot, but i will for sure add praying for God to help me raise a God- following adult!
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