Fellow parenting practitioners – the art of being and doing…
Loved this sermon David. “What can I do for you?” is a profound question – fathers particularly – can and should ask their wives and children. Bursting with enthusiasm to “try this” with my eight year old son I asked him this morning, “Son, what can I do for you?” Acknowledging my own naive willingness to throw myself on the pire, he replied in-kind without much effort, “hmmm, you can take out the garbage.” To which I quickly negotiated, “how about I do the recycling for you?”
I hope to take this to the next step, one by one, at the Koach house and ask: “How are you doing?” and take the time and space to really mean it and receive whatever the reply. Enough for now, I’m off to the recycling bin.
November 5, 2012 @ 10:40 am
Fellow parenting practitioners – the art of being and doing…
Loved this sermon David. “What can I do for you?” is a profound question – fathers particularly – can and should ask their wives and children. Bursting with enthusiasm to “try this” with my eight year old son I asked him this morning, “Son, what can I do for you?” Acknowledging my own naive willingness to throw myself on the pire, he replied in-kind without much effort, “hmmm, you can take out the garbage.” To which I quickly negotiated, “how about I do the recycling for you?”
I hope to take this to the next step, one by one, at the Koach house and ask: “How are you doing?” and take the time and space to really mean it and receive whatever the reply. Enough for now, I’m off to the recycling bin.