As an adult I have a much bigger will than my duaghter’s.. As of today we are going through a real trial of her testing our boundaries. Somehow and for some reason God has blessed us with three children who have extremely strong will. This ine in particular has been having a tough time lately. Mostly because she is SOOO particular!
As parents it is vERY important to teach our children flexibilty. I know that children need to be grounded into a routine and we as a pastor’s family try very hard to do that yet there are times it is imperetive that our kids need to be flexible. On a whole all of our kids are pretty flexible. For which I am VERY thankful But they have decided that they are going to test and see just how flexible our rules are. She has been pushing the limits at 4 with cloths YES 4. The thing is. Mommy is a HUGE stickler on clothes, and the same goes with daddy.
But the biggest problem we have is FOOD. Generally we don’t have picky eaters but for some reason she has decied she doesn’t like anything I fix. So in the past if they don’t eat their food at a particular mean they will have it at the next meal. Well over the last few days They all have been asking for their meals to be out away to the next one. YESTerday she had to miss school due to feeling “sick” I was just finishing with a stomach thing SOOOO We just assumed it was contagious and that she was getting it… Later it came out that she was just tellling us she wasn’t feeling well because she didn’t want to eat her food.
Today has been the same story. All she has eaten today was a bowl of cereal that she finished at Lunch and a partial bowl of soup she will finish tomorrow at breakfast. She ad to miss AWANA tonight. She missed out on a special dinner. All becuase she won’t eat her food. Tomorrowq will be another day…but tonight after hubby and the other two kids get home we are gonna have a family meeting about house rules and consequences. I found this neat webite and hopefully in not too long I will have the oppertunity of showcasing them and writing about how it has helped our family!
We’ll talk real soon!
