Who can we pray for today?
Psalm 8
1 O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
9 O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
Wandering Views 
Pastor Roy and family.
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Ditto.
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I could use prayers for patience today from 2-4 when about 20 seven year olds will be at my house. Please pray that if parents stay, they actually parent their children so I’m not in the awkward position of correcting their child while they are present. I’m feeling rather jittery at the moment because it’s “that time” of the month and I always experience heightened anxiety the first couple of days. Help me to see each kid as a precious child of God and to be loving and kind to all who attend. Unfortunately, there are a few girls in her class who seem to enjoy being mean, especially to a boy who has a learning disability (he’s been held back twice). Pray that all the children would be kind to one another and enjoy the party. Thanks!
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Pastor Roy,
You are in my prayers. May GOd envelope you in his love and comfort you during this stressful time.
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ANMS, that can be awkward. I was once involved with an after-school program at church that served a snack, and during the snack the children were not allowed to get up from the table. If they wanted something, they were to raise their hand. One day one boy stood up and started to walk to the kitchen. My roommate quickly headed his way and reminded him he was supposed to be in his seat. One of the other workers came to her side and asked, “Did you know that is my son?” Um, sorry, I don’t see why it matters that he is your son. He was disobeying one of the rules and, no, it isn’t because you gave him permission. Should he get away with whatever he wants because his mother is in the room? My roommate was rather surprised, especially because she challenged her right in front of her son, as though telling him he didn’t in fact have to listen to the other workers. Later my roommate (half the mother’s age) asked me in tears if she had been appropriate in that situation, and I told her absolutely, the mother was wrong. (My roommate was an intern at the church, directly tasked with overseeing the program, and thus the mother “reported to her.” But apparently she figured that since the boy was her son and she was older than the other woman, her son should be under her sole authority. Not a good message to give one’s child! I saw the whole thing, so I was able to tell her that she had not been rude either to the son or to the mother, but the mother was out of line.)
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Chery;, I would have been tempted to say, “So, you want to be the one to tell him to stay in his seat?” 🙂 I’ve been in that situation a few times. There are kids who think that because their parent works there that they not only have the right to do what they want but think they can boss the other kids around.
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kBells, I just really don’t understand why an adult in a room with 60-80 children and about 10 adults thinks it’s OK if her child can be the one exception to a rule that is necessary for proper order. Do you really want your child to be known as the one in the room who can’t follow instructions? And if your child won’t listen (or won’t be expected to), then why tell other people’s children to listen? If it’s wrong for me to speak to your child, then why can you speak to other people’s children?
Smart parents appreciate it when other adults lovingly back up their own discipline.
Too many parents seem to see childhood as a time of play and frivolity and not a time of training for adulthood (with plenty of pleasure along the way). Anything that doesn’t look like “fun” isn’t a proper part of their own child’s life. And then they wonder why at 35 he’s still unable to find a job that pleases him enough to be worth doing, why he’d rather live in their basement and play video games than do anything that looks like it might not be fun.
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Not in this generation. Too many parents think both they and their offspring should be the exception to all the rules. It’s really pretty staggering when you run into them and when you attempt to point out it’s not good for a child to always get their own way, you run into flack.
Everyone, you see, is doing what is right in their own eyes. 😦
Because they’re special.
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Even worse are the parents who are constantly on the look out for other children offending theirs or stepping on their child’s “rights”. As soon as I pick on one of these I do everything I can to keep my child away from theirs. It is even worse when you have a whole class to steer away from the little future lawsuit.
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My husband and I worked with youth for many years, starting when our children were quite young. When they finally reached youth group age, I asked the other couple who worked with us to be the ones to discipline or whatever needed to be done with our kids, because I knew I would be much harder on them than on the other teens and that wouldn’t be right and would cause conflict. Several times I thought they were out of line, but I checked with the other couple and their reasoning for not doing/saying something made sense – I was very grateful for their leadership in our kids lives.
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Wisdom in how to help a woman in an abusive situation.
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