Daily lessons with my kids!: Daily lessons with my kids!

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Daily lessons with my kids!

This morning I started out trying to keep things in order around my house....CRAZY, I KNOW! Anyway! I kept asking my sons to take out the trash and let the dogs out for their morning break. It just didn't seem to be working. Finally my younger son did both jobs for me because my oldest was still too groggy to come out of his room yet.
I started to have my usual "conversation" with him about getting up earlier and being polite and helping out, and he started to give me his usual glazed over look (Just like his dad:)). At first I was a little frustrated, but God gave me the strength to calm down and realize this was a teachable moment.
He reminded me how his brother never wants to do things for him, so why should he have to do anything for him? And my response was "We should do things for others whether they do things for us or not. I'm not getting onto you. I've realized our entire family has done this in the past. But we all need to work on being kind no matter what."
At that point all the things in the past that have happened between me and my husband were rubbing off on our kids. For a period of time, I was so tired of the way things were going, my attitude was "Why should I do it when he doesn't?". Obviously that was the wrong attitude and it rubbed off on my kids.
Now I'm trying to make up for all the wrong I did in my marriage and trying to teach my kids the way God wants things done, not the way the world says to handle things. And it's working out pretty well! I've been doing nice things for my husband, and he's responding with kindness!
God is awesome!!!

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Domestic_DivaOctober 7, 2010 at 6:49 PM
You are doing a great job! We're all human and imperfect, I am sure my attitude rubs off on my kids at times also. Even though I like to tell my family I do NOT have an attitude problem. lol
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The Proverbs 31 Wife

A wife of noble character.

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