A student in my daughter’s class has been crying all week.
Crying in the morning.
Crying in the afternoon.
The student, my daughter says, misses his mama.
She doesn’t like the student crying. “It’s hard to learn,” she told me.
My wife and I have endured quite a few fits from my daughter this summer. She’s cried in the morning. She’s cried in the afternoon.
I will give her credit for this. Thirty minutes later, it’s like it didn’t happen.
In the middle of the fit though? It’s real.
I asked her if she understood now why we want her to be upset, but not to throw a fit.
“Do you seek what it’s like to be around someone who cries?”
This is a high-level emotional comparison. What I hope is this. As she’s around other kids, she will see others portray the same poor traits she sometimes exhibits. This will let her experience what those traits look like from the outside. Then she can compare them to her own life (with our help).
Do I want to do that or not? With the Holy Spirit’s help, her life can be different.
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