As we live our lives, every action we take has some sort of result…good and bad. For example, if I stay up too late every night and then wake up early each morning, the result is a grumpy mom and wife- which in turns affects everyone else!
Someone gave us the parenting advice once that it is important to teach your kids there are consequences for actions before the age of 14, when their choices can really have long-term consequences for their future. Well, this last week we had the opportunity to teach consequences for actions!
One day we were standing by our car and looked down at the hood. It had letters and faces scratched right into the paint! We thought it had been vandalized when we had been grocery shopping that day. Our kids would never do that! Well, after chatting with Jay we discovered he had thrown a rock and it had flown through the air, turned around and ‘somehow’ scratched the car. :)
After thinking for awhile we came up with a plan where he would have to ‘work off’ the money he owed to fix the car. Each day he had a pretty difficult chore to do. At the end he had to write a sorry card to mom and dad. Hopefully he learned through the whole experience, and now we have a nicely decorated car!
Teaching Adventures 