Thank you so much!
This morning, one of my twins woke up on his own a few minutes before I was going to wake them.
He crawled into bed and said that he had a bad dream about fighting a gorilla... He said he didn't want to go to VBS today, but maybe tomorrow. I explained that if he does not go today, there is no reason to go tomorrow, because he would miss too much. He said, ok, then we just won't go.
I stopped and make sure that he realized that VBS only happens once a year and that he would have to wait a whole year to go again. He asked, "Would the mean kids be gone by then?" At that point my DH rolled over and asked him if there were mean kids there. He said, "Yea, they don't share, they push everybody down and stuff".
I asked him if those same kids come on Sundays, he said, "No, most of our friends from Sundays didn't come to VBS." He said he liked his Sunday school friends....
We crawled back under the blankets and watched the rain as we talked about what we were going to eat on Sunday AFTER we go to our next regularly schedule church day.............
We're experiencing something very similar. My 6-year-old daughter has Bible Basketball Camp at church this week. There's a girl on her team that's mean to my daughter and her friend (name-calling, making faces, etc.) This girl is very skilled at meanness, and this flies completely under the coach's radar - even though there are only 4 girls on the team. I've used the opportunity to talk about the reasons some people might be mean and what it means to love our enemies. We also joked that it's a good thing the girl is spending some time at church. But it still hurts.
Angelarocksout03:40 PM CST