Well, my wife said something funny in life group a couple weeks ago, so I just figured,

I'm just going to tell the whole church what she said. So a couple of weeks ago, we were in life group, and a lot of people in our group, they've got young kids, and a few of them are just talking about how difficult it's been parenting them in this season, and they're throwing tantrums, and they're not sleeping, and they're yelling, and they're hitting kids, and it's like, oh my gosh, as the first time that, I hear that, and I just go,

these people have no idea. and they're not sleeping and they're yelling and they're hitting kids and it's like oh my gosh as the

first time dad i hear that and i just go these people have no idea what they're doing like like

they're not disciplining their kids well like they're not fostering joy in the house like like what's

going on with these people and after we talked about it for a while my wife just said eventually she's just

like man i'm so grateful that our that our daughter just doesn't have after we talked about it for a while, my wife just said eventually, she's just like, man,

I'm so grateful that our daughter just doesn't have the personality that will throw tantrums.

That was literally just a couple of weeks ago. And almost exactly after that, we entered into a brand new season of parenting.

Because she's almost two years old now and just to kind of define what this season has been

like for us. And again, it's just been a few weeks. Last Friday, my wife came home from the

library with a book called Hands Are Not For Hitting. So that's where we're at right now.

She's just started to do some crazy stuff.

Like when stuff doesn't go her way, whenever there's like this conflict within her,

she does the wildest things.

Like just yesterday, she likes to wash her hands with soap.

Like whatever, that's her thing right now, which is great.

It's healthy.

So yesterday I picked her up and she's washed her hands with the sink in the sink, and I pour soap on her hands, and she does it, and it's great. And then I set her down, and she goes, Dad, one more time, one more time. I'm like, no, no, we can't do that one more time. And when I say no, she just goes like this. I'm like, girl, what in the world is going on? Like, you're going to hurt yourself. What are you doing? She started like raising her voice when things don't go well. But then there's been this other thing though I've kind of been a little excited about because I'm like, I think she's going to go to Baylor on an athletic scholarship because I think she's going to be a great outfielder for our softball team. Because whenever

she's playing with these toys and if she can't get it figured out, she'll try to put it

together and then she'll just look at it and go, boom. And like throw it as far as she possibly

can. I'm like, no, no, no, don't do that. Actually do that again.

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