Children are made in a convenient size for a reason.
All parents know that telling a child to do something or stop doing something does not guaranty results.
God, realizing the problem, made children in an easy to manage, miniature size.
Being small as they are, it gives us parents a decided advantage when it comes to exhibiting our will on them.
We can provide physical assistance to almost any command; come here! Go there! Stop that! Sit down! I know I'm not the only father to employ the "chopstick technique".
Many of you are familiar with this technique from either performing it on your own children or by having had it performed on yourself by your own parents.
The chopstick technique is used when, for instance, you tell your five year old to pick the candy wrapper she just threw on the ground, and she inevitably refuses to do so.
You then grasp her little arms like chopsticks and assist her in picking up the wrapper, or shutting the door, or putting her toys away.
You can help her clean her whole room this way! Heck!, I bet you could build an addition to your house using those little chopstick extensions of your arms.
You do, however, have to use discretion about where and when to use the above method.
Older brothers and sisters are quick to pick up on it and perform a perversion of the method known as "why are you hitting yourself? Stop hitting yourself!".
But God is not without mercy.
Even though he created children in a fun and easy size to manage, he did not leave them without at least one reserve.
There is one thing that you can not make a child do no matter how big you are, or how small your child is.
You cannot make a child "LOOK AT ME!!".
You can grasp their little noggins and try to align their vision with your own, but you'll find that your best efforts are still eons too slow.
You can't even use your thumbs to keep them from shifting those beady little eyeballs from side to side because they're much too slippery.
Not that I've ever tried such a preposterous thing.
All parents know that telling a child to do something or stop doing something does not guaranty results.
God, realizing the problem, made children in an easy to manage, miniature size.
Being small as they are, it gives us parents a decided advantage when it comes to exhibiting our will on them.
We can provide physical assistance to almost any command; come here! Go there! Stop that! Sit down! I know I'm not the only father to employ the "chopstick technique".
Many of you are familiar with this technique from either performing it on your own children or by having had it performed on yourself by your own parents.
The chopstick technique is used when, for instance, you tell your five year old to pick the candy wrapper she just threw on the ground, and she inevitably refuses to do so.
You then grasp her little arms like chopsticks and assist her in picking up the wrapper, or shutting the door, or putting her toys away.
You can help her clean her whole room this way! Heck!, I bet you could build an addition to your house using those little chopstick extensions of your arms.
You do, however, have to use discretion about where and when to use the above method.
Older brothers and sisters are quick to pick up on it and perform a perversion of the method known as "why are you hitting yourself? Stop hitting yourself!".
But God is not without mercy.
Even though he created children in a fun and easy size to manage, he did not leave them without at least one reserve.
There is one thing that you can not make a child do no matter how big you are, or how small your child is.
You cannot make a child "LOOK AT ME!!".
You can grasp their little noggins and try to align their vision with your own, but you'll find that your best efforts are still eons too slow.
You can't even use your thumbs to keep them from shifting those beady little eyeballs from side to side because they're much too slippery.
Not that I've ever tried such a preposterous thing.
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