For those of you who aren't good Calvinists, total depravity is the first doctrine of Calvinist theology. In a nutshell, it basically says that humans are born in sin, are sinful, and can't do "good" until salvation (and are unable to choose to follow God).
And that, my friends, was played out right before my eyes tonight by our beautiful baby boy.
Kathee and I were cleaning up from supper. We put Gideon on his little fire truck so he could practice walking around in the living room. Kathee checked on him and I hear, "Gideon! NO!!! You do not touch the computer. That is off limits. No. No. No." Great. He responds well to Kathee's discipline and crawls off to do something else.
About 20 minutes later I am sitting in the chair right by the computer. Gideon is messing around on the floor with some of his toys. Then he turns towards the computer and then looks at me. Although I'm watching out of the corner of my eye, I don't let him know I'm watching. So he crawled a bit closer to the computer and looked at me. Then he moved his finger towards the power button on the computer and said out loud, "No." So I was pretty pleased that Kathee's discipline worked well and he learned. Then he crawled forward, put his finger closer and said, "No," again. Great. Except now he decided to touch the computer while saying no. Then he started messing with the button. So up I jump, remind him harshly that Mom told him NOT to touch the computer. I remind him that he disobeyed his mother and then took him upstairs for a couple minutes of alone time... of which he wailed and wailed. I went in, re-explained to him why he was being punished. I asked him if he was to touch the computer and he said, "No."
I love my son dearly. But the kid is depraved (which is why I continue to pray each night I get to put him to bed that he will know Jesus and walk with Jesus each day of his life). Calvin is right. Hear, hear!
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
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Such odd things can go on in a kid's head. Maybe he thought you were teaching him that the name of the button was No. Maybe he thought he was obeying you by not touching it the FIRST time; but later, what about NOW? or maybe NOW? did you mean NOW? It makes a good illustration about obeying the (seemingly arbitrary) rules when WE can't see anything particularly bad about what we're doing. Love the pictures. Bonnie
Y'know, we seem to have a child with the same problem at our house. Touching things, throwing things, shouting, when he knows that's off limits. Keep up the good work being consistent! I'm told it's all worth it.
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