Thursday, June 23, 2011

Parenting and Discipline

We would like to think that we are fun parents. We try to enjoy our children. While going through old home videos I found this little bit of fun. I think the "game" was more for Daddy's amusement than anything else, but Mark and Anya did enjoy it when it went right. Enjoy a few laughs on us.

Now to the present. Luke is a charming and somewhat difficult young man. Some things he will simply refuse to do and wig out if forced. Most of the time he is extremely obedient. So when he jumped on Mark's bed and broke something Mark made we asked Luke to apologize for his poor choice. He refused (as usual) so we sent him to stand in the corner of his room. He went and he stood. We continued with the nightly pickup and most of us left the room for a few minutes as we got things all put away. Then James called us all back to see that Luke had changed position.

Lest you think ill of us, we did scoop the little guy up directly after this snippet and put him to bed, where he stayed for the next twelve and half hours. It would appear that the poor guy was just tired:)

2 comments:

Laurel said...

seriously, Dave...how your kids have survived you is beyond me.

glad you've grown up...just a little ;)

and Luke. too cute.

Elaine said...

Oh my goodness. I hope no one turns you in for child abuse:-) Thank heaven your children are surviving you AND that you have grown up (according to Laurel:-) Just such cute kids. Would love to watch a video of them every day. Love to all!