Hmmm. Maybe they have me pegged, after all – at least about the whole ‘limited discipline’ thing. Discipline for myself is hard enough, but I found as a mother that lacking discipline in me made it hard for me to instill it in my children. As a mom, how many times a day do you find yourself repeating things over and over – pick up your toys, did you brush your teeth, clean your room – and then follow along behind them to make sure they did it?
Okay, I confess, I’m a slacker. The not following through part caught up with me. By the time my kids were teenagers I had learned to shut their bedroom doors. That worked only so long. One day, even I had enough. They came home to find this tacked onto their closed doors:
NOTICETHIS ROOM IS HEREBY
CONDEMNED
BY ORDER OF THE HEALTH AUTHORITIES OF THIS BUILDING OCCUPANTS HAVE
TWENTY-FOUR HOURS
BY WHICH TO COMPLY WITH THE ORDERS OF SAID AUTHORITY TO FUMIGATE, STERILIZE, DISINFECT, DECONTAMINATE, AND GENERALLY RESTORE TO ORDER SAID PREMISES.
IF IN GIVEN TIME ALLOTMENT OCCUPANTS HAVE NOT COMPLIED WITH DEMANDS STATED HEREWITH, OCCUPANTS ARE SUBJECT TO RESTRICTIONS TO SAID ROOM, OR POSSIBLE WORK DETAIL TO MEET SENTENCING REQUIREMENTS.
GIVEN BY ORDER OF AND SUBJECT TO HEALTH AND WELFARE DIRECTOR: MOM
(c) Copyright 2000 Melissa E Horsfall
Yup. They probably had the part about being ‘slightly off balance’ right too!
All for Him,
Missy
Because the LORD disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in. Proverbs 3:12 (NIV)