Parenting with Scripture

The other day as I was leaving work, on my way to collect Unique from school, I realised I had a voice message from one of her teachers. Apparently Unique had been involved in a ‘scuffle’ at school with another girl as a result of an argument. The situation escalated with a further 2 children becoming involved. Eventually a teacher was called to intervene.

The teacher, who I know very well, had sat the children down and talked through then incident with them. They apologised to each other and realised that the preferred choice of action would have been to walk away or at least call a teacher to intervene. They all received the same consequence, which was to miss outside play the following day.

Satisfied with the school’s handling of the situation, I saw no reason to impose further consequences. However, making sure I remained calm, Unique and I talked through the incident and she explained that she had been very angry. She talked about her feelings, her actions and what she should have done. I saw this as a teachable moment and I whipped out a book that I have been using called Parenting with Scripture by Kara Durbin, which lists a number of scripture verses which relate to children’s everyday behaviour and situations. We read and discussed the verses, considered the actions points and then prayed together.