Kate Trained. haha.

Yes, this is the longest post of all time.

Well, I made it To and THROUGH church. Lol

I am glad I went. I mean, it makes me feel a little guilty NOT going when there is a whole family room there for us. And though again, I realize it is not just for us...so far we are the only ones using it! It is only the second week after all though...So though I may be a little dry at the moment, I keep trying. I guess I shall try to bring guests each week so I am held accountable to go. Poor Doug. Well, at least I know he knows I love his teaching. Lol It is just sooo hard with Kate. I have to remember it is for a short time. Man I am so impatient! I did it three other times, WHAT is my problem?

The service? Uh...I have no idea. Can you believe it? ME. LOVER of God's Word to the nth degree. Is that how you spell Nth?

Anyway, I have no idea. Am said it was GREAT and that he was AMAZING. So, maybe we could call it the Osmosis Room and pray really hard???

So as SOME of you know (and you know who you are, ;)) I need PURPOSE so I see that instead of feeling alone in a glass cage (remember John Travolta's old Boy in the Bubble movie? Yeah, a little like that) Today when some people walked by they looked in (amazingly last week, no one did) and when they looked in they pointed and smiled, laughed or waved. I just smiled and waved back but in that moment I felt different. I don't know why mankind must conform. I am the ultimate non-conformist. Or so I like to think. But you know, how about some one way tint people? JUST KIDDING. It is totally cool and I totally love it and well, if I am the fish in the fishbowl, than SO BE IT. I keep telling myself....it is worth it in the end.
I love the non-worldliness in the kids....and the maturity at such a young age. No biting comments, no mean spiritedness, no hitting or being hit, etc. etc.
Mainstream Christian teaching is just not for us. Some programs teach as if the kids already come from the world..you know MTV teaching. God is not "cool" or "hip" or "rock and roll". I do not think Calvary teaches this way. I believe that if they teach adult church the way they do, they surely take the kids church pretty seriously. Feel free to fill us in, whomever.

Anyway, God is not fun and games He does not "change with the times" I do not believe you should teach to the culture UGH, I despise that. Let God be God..we don't have to get him in line with the awful CULTURE of the day...He is timeless, the ALPHA AND OMEGA...when did that start getting treated so lightly?
Ok, I am rambling and so am moving on...

MY POINT: Instead I choose to chronicle Kate's training with you. Yes, we're Kate training. Why do I think that is so funny? So what do you think? A blow by blow training of a two year old. All you need to survive this is Tequila and a switch. Haha. So here is it how it goes: (if you've made it this far)

IF you train a child YOUNG then you don't have a bratty kid when they're five, Capice? Or better yet, a disrespectful one when they're 12. I was noticing this child in a class recently. The teacher was speaking and directly at the child's table. The child was slouched over the table with her head in her hand and COMPLETELY turned away from the teacher. He was standing practically over her. I actually thought he was going to say something for a minute. It was terribly disrespectful. And I am not calling this girl down. She could have had a stomach ache or her cat could have just died, what do I know? I am not judging it I am just pointing it out as the "even if it is not fair, they have to" example. Too tough? Yeah, well..you do it your way, I'll do it mine.

The point is that it was ALL I COULD DO to not say, Sit up and look at your teacher when he is speaking! I mean, I was close. I probably actually would have if I hadn't asked if we were bothering the class by being there. (we were sitting at a table and listening to his teaching) and the other teacher not teaching answered: Well..... so I left. Lol And stood in the middle of the lobby with Kate. Ha. Someone put a chair in the lobby for us please. I guess I need church drive through. Do not repeat what you read in this blog people. I mean it. :) Though half of you there read this anyway.

Ok, back to Kate. So training her young. First, we are just getting her USED to it. She spotted this dog in the kids room and said" Play with doggie, play with doggie so the teacher who was SO SWEET said come on in...blah blah, and I set Kate down which of course set Kate off. Now I KNOW that people can judge that as spoiled, overprotected or insecure but Ann Marie who was standing there said, totally true to form as my personal encourager, "Aren't you GLAD she's like that?" I could have kissed her. Literally. And the answer is YES. I am glad that she is wary and cautious of others. She is not desensitized to being in large groups of people or kids. She's not "used to it". She takes her time getting used to people. And every one of the girls did. They never did the things the other kids did and they are BEST friends. They don't fight. Yes, you heard me right. They DO NOT FIGHT. Or yell at each other or me...or tell me 'no'. Well, Kate does, but NOT for long.
Her big thing now is No Mommy, not yet....No Mommy...not yet.
Praying, eating, bath time, bed time...No Mommy, not yeeeeeeet. Funny.

Ok, BACK to training. Bored yet? Good. So YES, I let her wander a bit in the Family room because she spends the first 20 minutes crying to leave and go home and bye bye time and doughnut time...and then she holds me and begs to nurse which I normally do but today I realized if ANYONE just glanced back there they would SEE me nursing so then I decided to just-say-no. Uh.....you can imagine how that went. Hey, the nursing room is pretty nice too!

So I let her wander after crying because hey, she is NOT crying and exploring a bit. I point up to Pastor Doug and say: "Pastor Doug" and she says Pastor Dug. And "music" and "praying" and "church" and SIT DOWN. And today she did. She cried, got held, wandered and then SAT DOWN. And that is the beginning, brethren.

Blessed sitting. She looked through her books and when she tried to get me to read them, I said NO. Mommy is reading her bible. And she said "Bible?" Yes, Bible.

And when she tried to narrate her book I said NO. We are in church. NO talking. Shhhh. ON and on this goes, week after week until she can sit quietly and mind completely. Because even if a child does not want to mind, they must. Even if what they are doing is not FAIR, they must.

But Kate is two....and I am not going to insist that she sit the whole time, and not look at a book, color, or play with a stuffy. No...she is TWO people and twos are made for walkin'. (get it? twos are made for walkin'? hahahahaha. I am so funny.)

So this is how we train, with love, discipline, and REALISTIC expectations of their abilities. Nothing worse than little Christian drones.

So...that's Kate training 101 for today. See you next week. Bring me an apple. :)