Dear Abby,
You do have your hands full! Mothering is such a high calling and so difficult at times.
I want my kids to behave because they truly desire to honor God and therefore honor me. I don't want them to just be polite on the outside, but have a heart that is bitter and disrespectful. It is hard to keep the balance between being play buddies and being in charge. The book Shep. Your Child's Heart by Tedd Tripp has opened my eyes EVEN more about the importance of continuing to discipline even though it is a pain in MY behind sometimes! Proverbs has so much to say about parenting...
Prov. 6:23 the corrections of discipline are the way to life.
May my children learn to obey all the way, right away and with a happy heart! WHAT A GOAL! Tripp discusses how discipline should actually bring you and your child closer...what a novel thought. I often say to Jeb, "Mama loves you too much to allow you to disobey (taken from "Don't Make Me Count to Three" and I love that she says to do that b/c you are doing what the Bible says elsewhere--communicate the TRUTH in LOVE. Discipline does bring restoration if you do it they way this dude says do it...Jeb is repentant and grieves his sin, take his punishment or his talking to or his time out, and we move on in love and a restored relationship. It has been A-MAZING!
My theme verses:
Let us not become weary of doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Galatians 6:9
No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness if we do not give up.
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