{"id":20222,"date":"2020-03-22T20:01:55","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T01:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=20222"},"modified":"2020-06-30T05:10:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T10:10:21","slug":"comment-on-no-structure-no-discipline-by-sarawallace1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=20222","title":{"rendered":"Comment on No Structure = No Discipline by sarawallace1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In reply to <a href=\"https:\/\/gospelcenteredmom.com\/2016\/07\/26\/no-structure-no-discipline\/comment-page-1\/#comment-1860\">Krystal Peterson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hi Krystal! That&rsquo;s a great question. It&rsquo;s so important for kids to get enough food. We can&rsquo;t help their hearts if we haven&rsquo;t helped their bodies! When I excuse someone from the table it&rsquo;s just for a few minutes for them to think about why they were excused and how they should change their behavior. It reminds them that sitting at the table is a privilege. My kids ask for more food after dinner, too. I have started leaving a little bit of dinner out on the counter so that if someone is genuinely hungry, they can have some more (especially since bedtime is hours after dinner). But I try to limit the choice to just dinner instead of letting them make something different just because they didn&rsquo;t like the dinner. If you keep your expectations consistent, your son will learn. It&rsquo;s okay to chip away at it every night. &#128578; That&rsquo;s what we&rsquo;re doing over here!<br \/> Blessings,<br \/> Sara<\/p>\n<p data-liked=\"comment-not-liked\" class=\"comment-likes comment-not-liked\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gospelcenteredmom.com\/2016\/07\/26\/no-structure-no-discipline\/?like_comment=1862&amp;_wpnonce=a5a0f10e74\" class=\"comment-like-link needs-login\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-blog=\"142994076\">Like<\/a>Like<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In reply to Krystal Peterson.<\/p>\n<p>Hi Krystal! That&#8217;s a great question. It&#8217;s so important for kids to get enough food. We can&#8217;t help their hearts if we haven&#8217;t helped their bodies! When I excuse someone from the table it&#8217;s just for a few minutes for them to think about why they were excused and how they should change their behavior. It reminds them that sitting at the table is a privilege. My kids ask for more food after dinner, too. I have started leaving a little bit of dinner out on the counter so that if someone is genuinely hungry, they can have some more (especially since bedtime is hours after dinner). But I try to limit the choice to just dinner instead of letting them make something different just because they didn&#8217;t like the dinner. If you keep your expectations consistent, your son will learn. It&#8217;s okay to chip away at it every night. \ud83d\ude42 That&#8217;s what we&#8217;re doing over here!<br \/>\nBlessings,<br \/>\nSara<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[800,283],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-selected-authors","category-the-gospel-centered-mom","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20222"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20225,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20222\/revisions\/20225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}