Diligent Discipline, Part 3 March 5, 2008
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As I thought about today’s post, I thought I should look up the definition of “diligence”. One definition I found was “a persevering application”. Another said “constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken”. In other words, when it comes to diligent discipline, we need to continually do the same thing over and over again.
I had an interesting example of this in my own life a couple of days ago. Being 8 months pregnant, I am not expecting my boyd to feel 100% right now, but I have been blessed with a relatively easy third pregnancy. But the other day my back was really starting to hurt. I would cringe every time I picked up Elijah and was pretty uncomfortable at night. At first, I thought this was just a pregnancy symptom and I would have to live with it for another month. But then you made a comment about whether or not I had changed anything. I started thinking about whether I had been stretching (I had), and pulling my core in when I was lifting things (I was) and any other change I may have made. then it dawned on me that I had started sitting in a different chair to use the computer since we got your computer back. Then I started thinking about the awful posture I used while sitting in that chair and it made perfect sense why my back was hurting!
After I got over my joy of figuring out what the problem was, later that day we were having some discipline problems with Abby. And it hit me that too often as parents we want to attribute a problem with our children to a “stage” or “phase” or some other external effect. But do we ask ourselves the question, “What have I been doing differently?” Often times we will find that we have changed something that we were doing and the effect is being shown in our kids. Let us look to ourselves and see where we may have failed to persevere in applying discipline and get back on track for our kids’ sake!
Striving to be diligent in discipline,
Erin
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