Last night after planning out the whole garden thing with the neighbors we sat the kids down for a little home evening. Steve told how Arabian horses are trained or at least one story of how they train them. He said to complete their training they would take them out and not let them have water for a few days but they would be corralled in a place where they could see water. After 3 days they would let them out and when they got half way to the water the trainers would blow their whistle and the horses "that passed" would return without water to the trainer. This would show their amazing self discipline.
He then sat the kids down in front of a plate of cookies and glasses of milk. They knew they weren't supposed to eat them until he said they could so that test was easily passed but when he asked them to control their bodies and not move or talk for a whole minute that turned out to be a very difficult task especially for Seth.
Well the lesson was done they ate the cookies and as we were saying prayers Seth again had a difficult time holding still and was playing around with Railey. After the prayer we again emphasized the importance of controlling yourself so that God can talk to you. The kids went down to bed and Steve went down and turned on the TV. A few minutes later Seth walked out of his room and came up to Steve and said, "Dad, I just don't get this whole self discipline thing."
Yes we know it was very apparent! We have a ways to go with this energetic child. Great Grandma Bailey always calls him her bull in a china shop.
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