Comments on: My First Parenting Scar http://ohamanda.com/2009/07/20/my-first-parenting-scar/ oh me, oh my, oh blog! Wed, 23 May 2012 15:29:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Paul http://ohamanda.com/2009/07/20/my-first-parenting-scar/comment-page-1/#comment-79612 Paul Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:33:25 +0000 http://ohamanda.com/?p=1619#comment-79612 What a great post. I'm a relatively new dad, (my oldest little guy is just 2) so my discipling skills are somewhat un-honed. To compensate, I've been praying a lot along the lines of what you've written here. I try to keep my discipline as (for the lack of a better word) un-adherent from the rest of my day with him as possible. I try to convey that he's disappointed me, and that his behavior needs correction, but once he's done his punishment and has said he's sorry I try to drop the issue. There's no use in my harboring a grudge -- once he's moved on from that action, he needs me to be the well rounded dad again, and I can't be that if I'm huffing and puffing under my breath. I like to think, to some extent, this is how God thinks of disciplining me... What a great post. I’m a relatively new dad, (my oldest little guy is just 2) so my discipling skills are somewhat un-honed. To compensate, I’ve been praying a lot along the lines of what you’ve written here.

I try to keep my discipline as (for the lack of a better word) un-adherent from the rest of my day with him as possible. I try to convey that he’s disappointed me, and that his behavior needs correction, but once he’s done his punishment and has said he’s sorry I try to drop the issue. There’s no use in my harboring a grudge — once he’s moved on from that action, he needs me to be the well rounded dad again, and I can’t be that if I’m huffing and puffing under my breath.

I like to think, to some extent, this is how God thinks of disciplining me…

]]> By: Holly at Tropic of Mom http://ohamanda.com/2009/07/20/my-first-parenting-scar/comment-page-1/#comment-58148 Holly at Tropic of Mom Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:11:34 +0000 http://ohamanda.com/?p=1619#comment-58148 "I want to spend these next ten years wooing her. Knowing her. Showering her with love." I needed to read this today, this week. I think I take my son's disobedience too personally. Sometimes, I'm angry with him all day. Sometimes even the next day too! Thanks for the reminder. .-= Holly at Tropic of Mom´s last blog ..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TropicOfMom/~3/agGfhlvEj2w/ocean-kayaks.html" rel="nofollow">Ocean kayaks</a> =-. “I want to spend these next ten years wooing her. Knowing her. Showering her with love.” I needed to read this today, this week. I think I take my son’s disobedience too personally. Sometimes, I’m angry with him all day. Sometimes even the next day too! Thanks for the reminder.
.-= Holly at Tropic of Mom´s last blog ..Ocean kayaks =-.

]]> By: annie http://ohamanda.com/2009/07/20/my-first-parenting-scar/comment-page-1/#comment-58133 annie Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:07:22 +0000 http://ohamanda.com/?p=1619#comment-58133 I remember hearing a christian therapist say that marriage goes through stages much like that of an teenager with parents. Pulling away to find their own identity. I remember when I could feel Amanda pulling away from me and sensing that her friends were the ones she was sharing her problems with instead of me. I have felt that tug away from them at different ages and the urge they have to be separate, but they always seem to come back. I think you handled it really well, maybe God gives us these little doses when they are little to prepare us for what is to come. Amanda leaves for college in less than one month. My baby. It's so weird... it seems like yesterday she was three like your little Lydia and I had little Bailey, the sweetest baby ever. But I look at her and she is so smart and beautiful, and has such good morals... and when I look in her room to see if she is sleeping when I wake up and see her bible laying beside her where she fell asleep reading it my heart is happy. .-= annie´s last blog ..<a href="http://mylifeasannie.com/2009/07/15/wordy-wednesday-32/" rel="nofollow">wordy wednesday.</a> =-. I remember hearing a christian therapist say that marriage goes through stages much like that of an teenager with parents. Pulling away to find their own identity. I remember when I could feel Amanda pulling away from me and sensing that her friends were the ones she was sharing her problems with instead of me. I have felt that tug away from them at different ages and the urge they have to be separate, but they always seem to come back. I think you handled it really well, maybe God gives us these little doses when they are little to prepare us for what is to come. Amanda leaves for college in less than one month. My baby. It’s so weird… it seems like yesterday she was three like your little Lydia and I had little Bailey, the sweetest baby ever. But I look at her and she is so smart and beautiful, and has such good morals… and when I look in her room to see if she is sleeping when I wake up and see her bible laying beside her where she fell asleep reading it my heart is happy.
.-= annie´s last blog ..wordy wednesday. =-.

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