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“Do you not know? Have you not heard?\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n
The Everlasting God, the Lord,\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n
the Creator of the ends of the earth does not become weary or tired…\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n
He gives strength to the weary, and to him who lacks might He increases power.” <\/i><\/b><\/div>\n
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\u201cThat\u2019s it. Samuel, leave your brother alone<\/b><\/i>.\u201d He had been on Joshua’s case all day long.<\/div>\n
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\u201cBut he\u2019s copying me!!!\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u201cI don\u2019t care what he\u2019s doing. I\u2019m not talking about Joshua right now. You are responsible for your own words and actions and you are not showing your brother kindness by yelling at him like that.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cYou ALWAYS want to get ME in trouble!\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u201cSamuel, I need you to stop talking and calm down right now, or you are going to time-out in your room. Take a deep breath so we can talk.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u201cI can\u2019t help it! I always do wrong! He\u2019s making me yell! I can’t stop talking!\u201d<\/div>\n
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I sent him to his room as promised for continuing to yell at me. Not to mention I needed to collect my thoughts and reign in my own emotions before continuing to deal with the situation. He stomped down the hallway as if he were trying to break his foot through the laminate wood flooring and slammed his door. Immediately, he began screaming, \u201cI\u2019M STUPID! I\u2019M SO STUPID!\u201d over and over again.<\/div>\n
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I was undone and began to fall apart.<\/div>\n
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The night before, I had spent 6 hours in the emergency room with my oldest son who, as it turned out, did break his wrist playing with a friend the night before that. We had given it some time to see how he felt and by the next evening, he was in horrible pain and definitely needed to be seen immediately. We didn\u2019t get home from the ER until 2:30 Wednesday morning. The rest of the day was a non-stop string of phone calls to orthopedists (trying to find one in our area that took our insurance), an unexpected trip to school to provide Sam with a change of clothes, a grocery stop on the way home, and what should have been a 30 minute online job I do once a week turned into a couple of hours due to interruptions from kids, trying to make dinner, all the while trying to supervise kids\u2019 cleaning and tidying up myself. Needless to say, when this little outburst occurred, I was already about an inch away from my having my own outburst.<\/div>\n
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As you know, (or for my new readers that don’t know,) Samuel has autism. He is high-functioning now, having overcome many obstacles with the help of early intervention ABA and speech therapy. I have often struggled with the balance between following both Christian leaders who have authored parenting books, and following the necessary techniques that are used in the secular therapy world that does not typically consider the Christian perspective in dealing with children.<\/div>\n