7/22/08

Conversations With Joshua

Yesterday was a bad day for the little guy. Lots of discipline because of a lack of sharing and obeying. This conversation took place after his 300th time out. We had tried everything else, so I figured I'd give religion a chance.

Me - "Joshua, Jesus says we are supposed to obey our mommies and daddies."

Joshua - "He didn't tell me."

Me - "He says it in the bible. That's how he talks to us."

Joshua - "He didn't say that. I tell you he didn't."

Me - "Joshua, he did. And he also said he would help us obey our parents."

Joshua - "I don't want him to help me."

So, go ahead and keep us in your prayers. We do want his help (and we need it ... badly).

1 comments:

Shari said...

He is so funny. Today Rebecca was trying to get him to tell me he was sorry for throwing a game on the floor. He didn't want to. I tried to coax him a little bit and he told me "I'm just very sad."

I said, "It's no fun to be sad. If you learn to say you're sorry, you'll be happy."

Joshua said, "I don't want to be happy and I don't want to say sorry. I'm just very sad to talk to you."

I said, "Well, you know that Mommy probably isn't going to let me give you any jelly beans if you won't say you're sorry."

And Joshua said without hesitation, "I'm sorry, Grandma Shari."