This week’s topic: I said I would never…
I actually rarely say “I would never” about most things because I parent pretty much on the fly — I have to with a kid like Daniel. I’m the completely permissive parent who lets her kid do things that Jon wouldn’t, mostly because I’m the one home with him most of the time and there are only so many battles I can fight.
I pondered this topic (in between prayers for the ER visit this morning to not completely suck) and the only thing I came up with was…
I said I would never let my kids misbehave in church the way _____________________’s kids seemed to be allowed to do.
Does anyone have a good recipe for crow? Because, seriously, I have a kid who opens and closes the sanctuary doors, the bathroom doors, turns the lights on and off in the bathrooms, slams the cabinet doors in the narthex, does laps in the aisles, and melts down if his daddy preaches too long and his mommy hasn’t taken him around the block enough times. I used to sit and mentally glare at the kids who messed around in church and the parents who let them. Let’s just say that my attitude has changed since becoming a parent.
(Oh yes, the ER visit went fine. Daniel was coughing badly and refusing to eat or drink which is not a good sign. After being on hold with Urgent Care at UCD Pediatrics for 30 minutes, I decided to cut out the middleman and just haul tail to the pediatric ER at UCD Medical Center. Four hours, two breathing treatments, a dose of steroids, and one nap later, Daniel was his normal self again and he did not have to be admitted.)
Now go see Becky and what everyone else said they would never let their kids do.
I had 3 girls first and met a lady at church with 2 boys my girls age (this was about 13 years ago). Well, I just thought bad parenting, too much sugar, to much this that & the other and not enough of who knows what. Then I had my first boy…and then my second. She has sinced moved but I called her one day just to say sorry, lol!
Now that you asked, I think there was a crow stew recipe in the Roma cookbook… definitely a hedgehog one…
That said, my kids are absolute angels at the synagogue. No, really. As long it’s not a Shabbat morning with actual preaching. Then they turn into little monsters. As long as there is communal praying, singing, chanting, short readings, they are engaged and enjoying it. They are kept busy and kept moving. I have no idea what they’d do in a traditional Christian church setting!