A great time to teach a lesson ... or maybe learn one

 on Monday, February 14, 2011 at 11:51am

I have the 50th anniversary Clue edition board game. Alex loves the weapons and pewter people and plays with them every time he comes over. I go and sit down and realize the brass dish that holds all the weapons, the plastic clips for the card board holders and the di is empty. I can see all the people and the weapons on the boards but no sign of the di or the clips. He hasn't gone any where with them I'm sure, so they must be under the coffee table or sofa or in the sofa. I make Alex stop playing and help me look for the pieces, that he keeps saying are in the box. i take everything out nothing, he suggests under the coffee table. I push it over nothing. we look under sofa. I am well not really panicked but wondering where the heck they could be. I sit down and start pulling everything out again. I pull up the molded form that pieces come in again nothing. Where do I find them in one of the forms under the playing cards, which I thought I looked under. He had kept them in the box. Such a good boy. Poor thing. I of course apologized and explained that he had done nothing wrong. That I was wrong. So much for teaching him to be responsible for what he was playing with. I wonder how many times we judge other by what someone else has done. I judged Alex by how other kids I have watched have treated stuff and though I try never to do that, I am so busted this time. I know I am completely forgive because right now he is sitting in my lap pretending that my little paper holder for typing is car and running it across my knuckles why I type. lol. Oh to have the forgiving/loving ways of a child.....of God!