Saturday, August 23, 2025

HOW TO TRAIN A CHILD. DUH.

Just finished having a whirlwind conversation with my oldest daughter when we discuss openly about politics and never have or always have so anyway she's telling me now about Dr Dobson's death in about all the trauma that that caused which I agree I was upset at Dr Dobson when he took away beef towel from McDonald's fries and I never did forgive him plus I had another run in well I didn't when my brother did when he is gay son who was making an effort to act like a Christian was in the modern music and he was so hardcore for the old hymns that he traumatized my family but I could forgive him for that because he you know help me in some ways but I also disagreed with his policy on disciplining children and I found my own way simply by searching the scriptures and I had a different take on of it I did not use military training on my children. Duh. I told them in an emergency if I had an order I wanted them to go ahead and do it first and practice on it just so they would be used to it so that when safety came they would automatically respond and then they could come back afterwards and after they completed the task and just like the disciples ask as many questions as they want and I don't understand why in the world so many of the evangelicals get this issue upset Jesus allowed his disciples to ask any question. So that was one the other thing that I mentioned was that there's two types of discipline that you apply to a Vine and of course that's talking about training I'll buying training not in the sense of military training but training a vine and the Proverbs specifically mentions train up a child in the way that he should go and when he is older he he or she will not depart from it and the way that I interpreted that and I think my kids turned out pretty good was that the training was like a Vine now sometimes you have too many shoots and sometimes you have to sniff snip them off but other times you just let the shoot grow but you use don't use wire use cloth to gently bend that child to your direction gentle pressure so that they know and don't give up and so now my children are free thinkers one's divorced that's a free thinker and she knew I wasn't pleased with it but you know I'm not her boss and we don't have a contract and so she divorced her husband and I'm still great friends with her ex-husband so you know but I can't talk about it with her I have to let my oldest daughter who understands me pretty well but she can be kind of bossy at times and I told her when I'm in my cave and you're shutting me up I take that personally and that's one reason also why don't make a good coach anyway now you've heard me ramble on about my oldest daughter who my very proud of both of my children I homeschooled my children but I didn't I didn't use any method because nobody understood what I was trying to do so anyway what I did with her daughters is that on safety rules and I did this even with the puppy dog that I had as I made safety rules there were like a game and I taught them the game of free is when they were still toddlers and so I would teach them freeze and they would freeze and then that was a great thing when you come up to cross it and then when we cross the street I didn't have them on halters I had them trained like you do a dog and you have you point to the floor and the dog will follow that across the street and then when you're across the street you'd lift your hand up and that means I can go burn around on the grass just stay off of the road and I did the same thing with my children and we played the game of free so I called that otter training make it a game otters do everything like a game or beavers as far as that goes beavers and otters are two smartest groups of animals I know. Yeah that's enough of me rambling on. I'm going to make this post separate on the shepherd's journal and then maybe if I get time I'll put it on the shepherd's journal on sub stack too. And no I'm not going to do a lot of editing you don't like my English editing then you can move in and sign up to do it or I'll send it to you my daughter does that for law offices and boy is she a pain in the ass on that.

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