Don't Make Me Count to Three

Oh that feels good! I have finally finished reading one of the parenting books that lay stacked beside my bed for way too long. Don't Make Me Count to Three by Ginger Plowman. I even took notes as it's not my book and I there was so much I wanted to be able to review and remind myself of. One of the major points that I walked away with was this:

Do we want our children to obey God the first, second, or the third time? Okay a no brainer. But if we as God's appointed authority over our children allow them to wait until the third time to comply what are we teaching them? So as inconvenient as it is we are going to do our best to follow through with our boys the first time. This means I need to be more mindful about the words that come out of my mouth, am I able/willing to follow through with a request before it's out of my mouth. So "let your 'yes' be yes and your 'no' be no". By the way diaper changes have been easier with E since he has been getting a time-out the first time he doesn't come and lay down. We have been experiencing PEACEFUL, compliant diaper changes (not all the time but enough to notice).

Another point that was a new concept for me to wrap my thinker around was this one:

We all know that consistency in parenting is so very important for our kids but when you consider the verse "Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking in anything" James 1:2-4, it leads us to understand that when we are persistent in the godly rearing of our children (as in many things) it will bring about a maturity in us. Cool!

There was this other parenting book I really wanted to read but I wouldn't let myself read it until I had finished this one and I'm so glad that I did. The other book I wanted to read I'll review sometime here but let me just say that I just finished it and it only took me 10 days to read!