get to attend the final regular AWANA because it took him three days to find his Sparks book. Three days - - three straight evenings after his dinner, homework was completed, bath taken, he "searched" for his book. The first night, he was two inches away from it but he didn't see it.
His "searches" somehow involved a toy or watching TV. At first, I was on him about really looking and not playing. My frustration and my temper were rising and finally I just laid it out there, if you can't find it then you can't go to AWANA. I mean really dude? We don't leave in a mansion. There's only four places a book could be: the desk, my nightstand, on the stereo, or under the bed. But somehow my son couldn't find it until day four, after he stayed home from school.
Where was the book? On my nightstand. I was sad that he missed AWANA, but he has to learn actions have consequences. So if you don't really look for something, then maybe you don't get to go to somewhere you really want to go.
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