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Don't make my husband mad - he's the king of punishments at our house

post #1 of 16
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Our poor girls - lol!  Dh comes up with the best punishments for them.

 

Last month Lexi's teacher pulled me aside and asked me why Lexi wasn't getting very much in her lunchbox.  I'm like she told me her sandwich, fruit, and granola bar were enough.  Well she was mooching off of all the other kids in the class. I tell her father about this, he's like ok she will be taking one of the coolers to school full of food tomorrow and all the little kids she's been banking off of will get to bank off her.  They get first choice and Lexi gets what's left over.  Oh the tears started to flow, I can't take a lunchbox that big to school. Oh yes you can and it's going to sit right next to you all day.   Well that plan kind of backfired by the end of the next day, she was the cool kid.

 

Yesterday - they were just terrors in church. Dh pretty much lectured them all the way home about how you are supposed to act in church and made them sit in their rooms and think about it.  While they were in their rooms he's like what can we do to make them understand. I'm like the country church (which is a branch off of our main church) starts in 10 minutes why don't we make them go again.  He goes to get them out of their rooms and tells them we are going again. Lexi puts up a fuss, Aubs says she can't because she is still thinking about it in her room.  So we load them up and off we go, Pastor must of known why we were there again because he threw a little extra into the children's sermon that wasn't in the first one about paying attention. You have never seen such well behaved children then ours at the 2nd one.  They got up when the congregation got up, sang, etc. 

 

I can't wait to see what else he comes up with along this parenting road.

post #2 of 16

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it....and more parents SO need to be the PARENT!!! 

post #3 of 16

I have to admit - going to church 2x in one day would have been the worst form of punishment for me as a kid. Going once is punishment for me now! However, I don't know that you want to get the kids to associate church with punishment. Otherwise they might turn into happy heathens like me, and I doubt that is what you are after...

 

 

 

post #4 of 16

I am with calimari on this one.

 

I know the reason for what you did, but I wouldn't want the kids to associate having to go to church as punishment.

 

But then again, I spanked dd when she needed it, and I know that there are many on here, who would tell me how wrong I was.

post #5 of 16
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Maybe the title should not be punishment, but lessons learned. 

post #6 of 16

I think it was a great lesson in respect...honoring your father and mother AND those adults like the preacher who was preaching!  And second chances, too...because they were given that second time to do better...and DID!

post #7 of 16
Uh-oh...he'd have made me go a 3rd time...I couldn't stop laughing after
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Aubs says she can't because she is still thinking about it in her room.


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I think at the end of the day- it was a good lesson learned....Even Hubby agreed -I told him about it yesterday, he said we would have done the same exact thing.
post #8 of 16

Your post cracked me up. I love a creative punishment! Thank you so much for the laugh.

post #9 of 16
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Originally Posted by calimari View Post

I have to admit - going to church 2x in one day would have been the worst form of punishment for me as a kid. Going once is punishment for me now! However, I don't know that you want to get the kids to associate church with punishment. Otherwise they might turn into happy heathens like me, and I doubt that is what you are after...

 

 

 

 


I was thinking the same thing. I hated the church I grew up in as it was. Having it used to punish me (as if the threat of hell wasn't bad enough) would have just driven me to leave it sooner than i did.
 

 

post #10 of 16

I totally understand what everyone is saying about not making it out like church is the punishment.  I love creative punishment and making it fit the crime, etc; so I had to give this one a lot of thought.  In this case, I don't really think that the punishment was church or having to listen to another sermon - it was having to respect God, the person who was talking, and everyone else who wanted to hear; and it was a a chance to do it right.  That is completely different that punishing a child with a church service. 

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