Discipline is rough.

Why, when it is the child's disobedience that causes him an ugly consequence, do I feel guilty?  Why does his upset, fully deserved, wreak havoc in MY heart?  I don't know, but it has ALWAYS been true.  I seem to feel bad FOR them.  (Many times I feel worse than they do and for longer!)  It must just be the way a Mama is wired.

I don't know why it is so hard to learn to keep your hands to yourselves in school.  But some children just cannot seem to refrain.  And the mother has to preach (again) that everyone has a right to be safe and not have someone else hurt them (however inadvertently).

Oh well...I press on...and I'm trying not to grow weary of doing good...