Tongue Piercing
One of the lessons we have learned from parenting our six is to “choose your battles.” Some parents fight their kids about everything. It polarizes the relationship and makes things far too tense and competitive in the house. We have decided to try and avoid always being the “opposition party” by asking ourselves if the issue is a moral issue, something hat has eternal consequences or at least life threatening in some way. If so, then by all means we will resist our children’s actions with all the strength we possess. But most matters, we discover, do not fit into this category. It is usually a matter of style or a child’s desire to color outside the lines a bit. Jessica has wanted a tongue pierce for many years. We told her she was too young, and to her great credit, although she wanted to do it she restrained her liberty out of respect to us, but this year she is 17 and so our argument faded and we yielded. It took five minutes. Her tongue swelled up to about 1 1.2 inches thick, but through all that pain she was happy. It was a harmless symbol of her independence and freedom to express herself. Even though hardly anyone can even see it.
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i wnat my tougue peierced im aloud to just
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Chuck and Sherry,
Good words of wisdom. Well said and I will definitely remember that when my little one gets older.
thanks for sharing and being real.
Sincerely,
daryl brewton
Thanks Daryl,
Some days you sail through with kids and other days you have to think about every word you say and bite your lip a lot. Other days scare you to death and all you can do is pray hard for their hearts. The comfort I have is that I have a covenant with God like Abraham did. God is still wrestling with the descendants of Abraham until this day and since He is no respecter of persons He will wrestle with mine also.
Thats great wisdom. Too many parents take on fights that alienates and separates families over issues that really just are not that important. I love that encouragement about God’s covenant and He still ‘wrestles’ with them.
Thanks Chuck for believing in and releasing the younger generation.
Mark
Thanks Mark, What’s new at Hillsong? Nathan is using his training every day and tells everyone what a great training environment you have there.
Thatth all thupid.
Tongue-pierthing ith the greateth thing evah.
I had someone talk to one of my born-again nephews about his ink being against one verse in… Leviticus, I think it was. My response was, “well you can’t have any more bacon then, because it talks about that a whole lot more.”
Anyway – I’ll see her at Kinkos passing out attitude with all the other goth chicks behind the counter.
(juth kidding, Jethica)
Paulie, you are hilarious… I had a waitress once witha big pierce trying to communicate about the meal. Thankfully, Jessica ended up taking her’s out after just a little while. It was more about asserting her independence than the metal thing itself.