Ginger Hubbard

I read the good parenting books.

I even wrote a couple of parenting books.

But don't think for one second that I didn't fall into some of these things myself sometimes, like threatening.

I'll give you one instance comes to mind when

my kids were little.

And every Tuesday night, they had the blessing and joy of spending the night with my parents.

They loved spending the night with Nana and Papa, so that was a super treat for them and for my parents.

And so it was a Tuesday afternoon.

I homeschooled my kids.

They had just finished doing their schoolwork.

And I said, you guys need to get your rooms cleaned up.

And they were just not obeying me.

They were not doing what I told them to do.

They were procrastinating.

And I was procrastinating in training them because I was busy doing something or I don't know what was going on that day, but I just wasn't taking the time to train them the way that I needed to.

And so I kept repeating my instructions.

And then what typically comes after that is throwing out that thread.

And so I threw out the thread.

I said, if you guys

Don't hurry up and get these rooms cleaned up.