Ya right. We can only hope!
Paul reminds us that ALL have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23). ALL – including those cute little bundles of joy and precocious toddlers.
So yes, they do fight. Thankfully, not the head bashing, teeth biting kind but they still do fight. And the little toddler is not exempt from it either!
And what do they fight about? Toys, obviously. And when one does not want to play by the rules or when one just does not want to play! Oh, they’ll find things to fight about usually. How about, “Don’t look at me!”, “Don’t sit next to me” and “Don’t touch me!” They also know which buttons to press to provoke the other! So when someone is bored, trouble usually is not far behind!
Thankfully, they do not fight all the time. And when they do, it is usually resolved in a short time – either by themselves or occasionally, with me as the mediator.
Also, just because we homeschool, people also assume that the children are therefore well behaved and never have bad attitudes. Need I say again that all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23)? One doesn’t really need to learn bad attitude. One just has it due to our sin nature.
Yes, the children are relatively well behaved and that would be due to the amount of time we have with them to train and discipline them daily. And also, they learn pretty fast that if they keep on fighting with their siblings, they would have no one to play with eventually.
So they learn to keep peace with one another and also learn to deal with each other’s eccentricities. Like I said always, life is never boring around here.
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