As a child, my brothers and I were not allowed to tattle. This played out in several ways. Once, my older brother had an accident on a playgroud. He hit his forhead and crashed to the ground. He was holding his head and blood was pooling around him. I was unrelated to the accident, but I crouched next to him and asked, “Should I tell Mom?”  YES!!  64 stitches later!  Yikes. Another example was between my younger brother and I. He had been a bit feisty and I had repeatedly asked him to stop doing that specific thing. He would not stop. I looked at him and calmly said, “Do…

Have you ever tried to think like a child?!  Or, have you ever tried to think what a child would do in a specific situation?  Good luck!  Their little minds are working overtime to come up with a “good idea”, but they have a long way to go to think like an adult!  Their “good ideas” make us adults shake our heads and wonder, “What made them think that was a good idea?!”  I have several examples of this.   One child: Our first year living in Montana came with several strange challenges. My 2 oldest were in elementary school, 2nd and 3rd graders, but because of the system to place…

One single remark by a friend, changed my husband’s view of children forever.  He was terrified to have kids for fear of the little monsters that we would then have to try to wrangle. We had only met small tyrants in the early years of our marriage and he wanted nothing to do with the creation of any more of them!   We were on a road trip and stopped by to see a friend as we were passing through her town. Her children were delightful and obedient. My husband could not resist asking why?! Her simple response, “Kids are like dogs, you just have to train them”! That struck a…