ARGH. It seems like everyone around here has at least 5 kids, and they treat them like garbage. It is so the opposite of gentle parenting…everyone I know or have met makes their kids (from tiny infants to preschoolers) cry it out, spanks, and all that stuff. Almost a return to the ‘be seen and not heard’ mentality of days gone by. I don’t understand it! Is it the large family sizes that make individual kids kind of lost in the shuffle…is it the country mentality of having kids so you can put them to work for you…is it the canadian/german influence that is kind of cold and distant…or what?
All I know is I’m struggling to maintain what I think is right. I am praying, praying for God to show me whether he wants me to change. But I don’t think he does.
Tony is bummed because one of his “friends” from CA called and apparently, Tony’s parents are bashing our choice to move to Michigan…saying we are stupid and not thinking straight…apparently they forgot that our marriage was on the rocks and that divorce was right around the corner if we stayed. They don’t want to take any responsibility for it…which is fine, because it’s hard to admit that you SCREWED UP and you’re not the kind of man your son wants to emulate…but to bash us to other people is just so hurtful. Tony has to forgive them…they are dead in their sins, they are sinners without God and they cannot be different than they are without the love of Christ…but if he doesn’t forgive them, Christ won’t forgive him! We are working through that with Marc right now.
Poor lil pill is cutting 4 teeth all at once. Once these are in, only 4 more teeth total to go before his entire mouth is filled…I hope this means no teething issues for the next 4-5 years! TEETHING SUCKS.
Well, I’m going to surf a bit then off to bed.
