Not Making Good Choices
This past weekend, we were having a mini vacation with several friends and their children.
On Saturday morning, while Yvette and I were cooking breakfast, I heard a 3 year old ask her mom if she could have some potato chips. The request did not come out of the blue since we had all of our weekend food, including a big box of chips, stacked in and around the dining room table.
Now it would have been very easy for her mom to just say no to the potato chips. But she surprised me. Instead of saying no, she responded,
You are not making good choices. I have taught you to make good choices.
That was powerful. Here was a 3 year old who was learning to make good choices, and not just responding to the word no.
She did not get her potato chips, but she did get some of the pancakes that I was cooking.
