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Step 1. Gather required materials: 7 year old child who has pooped and peed their pants in their room water from shower 5 gallon bucket Step 2: First, make child "ride" to the bathroom in a 5 gallon bucket (formerly used as a night-time potty for same child) to make your clean up easier. Next, make child undress in bathtub, have them put their poopy/pee-pee clothes in a bucket (put lid on TIGHTLY). Turn on shower and rinse remaining poo/pee off. Say: You know, all the bad things we do are called sins. They are kind of like the poop you made in your pants. God doesn't like sin. But, Jesus is like the water. If we ask Him to forgive the bad things we do, He will clean us all up just like this water is cleaning the poop off right now. 1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Step 3: Sit clean child outside and SANITIZE the bathroom and bedroom. As you might guess, Leona has been backsliding. The last two days (Mon. and Tue.), she decided to try pooping her pants. These were also our first two days of school and, more noteworthy, our first two days of morning devotions/Bible study. Obviously, she does not handle change well. And, of course, we all know what happens when we decide to study the Bible more...the enemy attacks! I have told her that she is not yet ready to do school work and will be required to sit quietly and watch while the other children have school time (about an hour). I also told her that someday, when I think she is ready, I will decide that she can do school work again. I gave her 3 "tests" this summer and she did well with the first 2 (not purposely doing her work wrong) but the third time, she acted like she didn't "understand" at first and then, she purposely got one wrong. (You might wonder how I knew it was on purpose?....she told me which one was wrong while she was not even looking at the paper). On a more positive note, I am so encouraged to see the children (even Ian who just started reading at the end of last school year) bringing their Bibles to the table and wanting to read the verses out loud. I never expected this! We are studying "The Narrow Way" by Pearables and are studying the character trait of "Faith" right now. So, that's the most recent update...please keep us in your prayers! |
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