As always, Doug continues to make me laugh. He picks up on the ironies and nuances of life that should be oblivious to a 5 year old. Well, I guess he will be six next week.
Tonight was Mike's turn to teach the family night lesson. He'd chosen to give a lesson out of the Friend-- one on "Words that Build Up"-- paying compliments to people and not saying bad words.
Family night was held right after dinner-- stir fry which Michael had said was "gross." He earned a pretty severe reprimand for his bad manners. As we started the family night, Doug started to laugh when Mike was talking about using good words. He pointed out quite bluntly that, "Hey Mom, that's funny that Mike is teaching a lesson on using good words 'cause he just got in trouble for using rude ones!
That sent Mike into tears and what could we say? It was pretty ironic. He's also the one who pointed out how funny it was that one of the kids was cheating at the family night game last week-- the lesson was on honesty.
Somehow, we're losing something in the translation between learning gospel principles and living them...
BTW-- update-- down total of 8 as of this morning-- after a weekend and all! 17 more to go!
1 comment:
Sounds like you are giving inspired lessons each week ;)
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