Where has the time gone?
10 weeks and counting!!!!! We are getting ready to meet this little person that has been slowly growing in Devynn's tummy for the last 7 months. It's crazy how the time has flown by. It seems like it was only yesterday that Devynn was peeing on a stick while I was at work. Now, we have a nursery, a crib, cradle, diapers, wipers, little outfits that even our cats wouldn't fit into! It is exciting and scary at the same time (and I think it's the 52,9471th time I've said that on this blog, I know). I really am excited to hold the little one in my arms and to look into its' eyes and see the person that he or she can become. What a journey!
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On another note, do you ever deal with people that you just want to give a piece of your mind to? In one of my assignments, there is a young man who I deal with who I really shouldn't even deal with in the first place. I look after the 12-13 year olds in our ward, and he is 15, almost 16, so in a totally different age group. Anyways, sometimes his group joins ours for activities, which is fine with me. However, if he does participate, he has to be the center of attention and has no respect for anyone. He comes in when he wants, does the activieies or parts of activities he wants, and then leaves without following up. Tonight part of our activity included the guys cooking a batch of Ramen (or Ichi-ban) soup. Not a hard task, right? Part of the task was also to do your dishes using things in the church kitchen. Again, not too hard, especially since two other groups had gone before and done everything as they were supposed to. However, "Chris" decided that he didn't have to do his dishes, or anything else, for that matter. He left them in the kitchen. When I confronted him about it, he said he had already done it, and I knew it was a lie. I caught him on it, and convinced him he needed to come and clean up. However, halfway to the kitchen, he ran across the gym in the opposite direction screaming like a school girl.
Later on, at the end of the night, he had the audacity to ask where his chocolate bar was for doing the activity. I only overheard him ask for it, or I would have given him a piece of my mind.
Some people's children...
posted by Brian - the Shrink at 9:16 PM
4 Comments:
Those are the kids that usually need the most understanding and compassionate leaders; obviously there is something else going on there, perhaps he is not getting the direction at home that he needs. I think it would be important to develop a positive relationship with this kid despite him not being in your sunday school; perhaps focusing on his positive attributes would help you in understanding him better.
Good points. I guess I already knew that, but it helps to be reminded. Sometimes it's so hard to see past the attitude problem and want to reach out and help.
I only know a little bit about your religion but the whole idea of YOU mentoring these teenage boys is quite odd. And making soup as an activity, let alone getting a chocolate bar for a reward seems really silly and not at all wordly.
I'm not quite sure I understand your meaning. Why would it be odd that I am mentoring these boys? And the reason we were making soup was an exercise to help the guys prepare to serve missions. It was a "missionary Olympics" of sorts. We had the youth do a variety of exercises, such as shining shoes, ironing, teaching a mini lesson, and cooking, so that they could have a small taste of things they could encounter during the two years that they would be living on their own. The chocolate bar is just to thank them for participating. It's not meant to be a bribe at all, if that's what you are inferring.
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