Kathy, I just wanted to say thank you, and how much I appreciate your wisdom as a mother of older children.
This has been so true in my experience thus far...
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Every mistake that I made in parenting my children was an over-reaction based on fear--fear that if I didn't get a grip on this RIGHT NOW, my child was headed for big trouble. I was leaving out God's work and I was leaving out the natural maturation process.
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Sally Clarkson talks a lot about this in "The Mission of Motherhood" one of my all-time favorite Mommy inspiration books... just that children *are* immature and it *is* tiring, but it is a long process. But they do mature, and guidance and correction and consistency yield good fruit! I find that the Pearls put an emphasis on "perfect" behavior along the way and have developmentally inappropriate expectations for children's behavior.