"I asked them if they were fully aware of the fact that they were going to be in trouble with their teachers if they got caught shooting paper hornets...they affirmed that they were indeed aware."
So? I ask my kids questions like that often as well. It's called, making sure they know consequences to their actions.
Don't you do that as a parent?
"Johnny, do you know what will happen if you get a cookie before dinner?"
I'm still not understanding what the big deal is here.
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That is a weak response. One can easy say that when you post something against what others do.
Anyhow, I understand the boy will be boys thing. But to encourage disobedience to a teacher is not smoehting I'm interested. Not that i'd have a seizure if my son was caught something like that, but I wouldn't sit down and show him.
Some of my post had to do with some justifying cracking some heads more then Coons teaching his kids to disregard the teachers authority.
eevn my wife who is pretty laid back wasn't going for it(the hornet thing)
I understand what you are saying here, and I agree to a certain extent, however, what is the consequence of throwing paper hornets?
I mean, you can tell your kids not to have cookies before dinner, but why do you tell them that? There is no crime in having cookies before dinner, is there? But you know that when they have cookies before dinner, then they don't eat dinner, or perhaps they get sick as a result.
So, your child decides he's going to eat cookies anyway. Did he disobey you, or is his punishment of getting sick the consequence?
I think you should find out more details before assuming CS is encouraging his children to be disobedient.
There are also bigger battles to fight. Kids will do things that they perhaps shouldn't do, but is it ok to allow them to do some things that have minor consequences for the sake of keeping them from doing things with bigger consequences?
People learn from their mistakes, including children. If my children are allowed to make decisions that might cost them a little, perhaps they won't make decisions that will cost them a lot.
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I confess...I taught my sons to prevail in the paper hornet wars that take place on the playground of their school.
I am not raptured yet.
I, unlike Enoch, have not been translated either.
In fact, some time back, my wife and I had driven separate vehicles to church, and gone to Applebee's after a late Sunday night service. I was in my old, beat up coon hunting truck.
My wife left with my youngest son, while I stayed to take care of the check. Three college age boys had been at the bar for a good while drinking, and had gotten a little rowdy. They went out just a bit ahead of me.
As I was making my way across the mostly deserted parking lot with my son in tow, they came driving up alongside us. They stopped when I got to my old truck and began verbally harassing me and talking in a bellicose manner.
I looked at them and saw a look in their eyes that I had seen before a time or two, and knew that the old devil was putting some very foolish ideas in their minds.
As I stood there, a great wave of compassion for those misled young men swept over me. I knew that if they were to do what they had in mind--jump out of their vehicle and thrash me--that the ehavy hand of God's judgment would come upon them for abusing a man of God.
I couldn't bear the thought of that happening to those boys.
But as the Scripture says, "Where sin abounds, grace doth much more abound."
Grace provided the inspiration...I got my tire tool out of the back of the truck and backed up against my door, looking upon them with all the agape I could muster.
Showing more wisdom than they had been showing up to that point, they threw their car in gear and peeled out of there, accepting the way of escape that mercy had so graciously provided for them in their hour of temptation.
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