Ginger Hubbard

And so we have to inconvenience ourselves.

And when we're willing to do that, to take that and to take that moment and walk away and train them in what is right, we're teaching them that our word is our word.

And Matthew, it says simply let your yes be yes and your no be no.

And so that means all the time that they need to obey.

And so another one that I see a lot is threatening.

And that one usually comes after we have repeated our instruction several times to no avail.

And so we pull out the big guns.

You know, something like, honey, if you don't start sharing your toys right now, I'm going to send them all off to kids who will share.

But this teaches them that mom doesn't mean what she says.

Right.

You know, how many of our parents, in an attempt to get us to appreciate our toys, talked about the kids on the other side of the world who don't have any toys.

But how many of our parents actually followed through with that threat and boxed up all of our toys, taped up, boxed up, and shipped them off to Ten Buck, too?

Probably not too many.

And if they did, they're following through.

That's not a threat.

Yeah.

And let me just say this, too.

You know, I'm spitting out all of these answers here, and it may sound like that I always did everything right, but I didn't.

I wanted to be a good mom.

So I studied scripture.