1- Didn’t whine that grocery shopping is taking too
long…because mom will drag it out an hour longer!
2-
If you want money, tell mom you’d do laundry for
a week.
3-
Don’t ask pops about a car part unless you want
him to explain it for 40 minutes.
4-
Don’t ask to stay the night anywhere, unless your
parents had met. (This sucked.)
5-
If you don’t like dinner. Starve
6-
Always ask mom first cause she almost always
says yes.
7-
Don’t start watching something on TV you plan on
finishing, or my parents will change the channel if they don’t want to watch
it. It’s best to just watch what they
watch. ZZZZZZzzzzzzzz’s.
8-
And the last one, girls don’t cut your
hair.
As we were talking
about rules we also discussed boundaries.
Boundaries are needed, and exist in every family. These boundaries can be placed up by the
rules that each family has in place. We
talked about 3 different types of boundaries.
1-
The concrete wall. When you see a house that has 9 foot concrete
slabs and chicken wire all the way around it, it gives the feeling that this is
my space and you are not ever allowed to come across it. Some families are very much this way.
2-
The second one is posts that are just put in the
ground with nothing to connect them.
This analogy can be related to a family who are open, but most of the
time too open, and has no clear boundaries set in place. I like to think of this as chaos.
3-
The last one is a white picket fence. This represents kindness, and it’s not too
tall so it is welcoming. However, white
picket fences are pointed at the top so if someone was to straddle it, it
wouldn’t be comfortable. This is the
ideal way to set boundaries within the home.
Keep them kind, but a distance that keeps you and your family
close. This is the ultimate goal that
Heavenly Father wants us to achieve.
So when all else fails, choose the picket fence.
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