"Catching your kids doing something GOOD"

My day did not start out too well. We've been having problems with our garage door closing. Well, this morning I could NOT for the life of me open it. SO I set my phone down on the back of the van and told my self "OK.Lets.Do.This.Thing." Three or four minutes later I had it open. But guess what ? Yep, I LEFT my phone on the back of my van, of course cuz that's how I roll, and I took off. So i get to work and call Kyle who was of course still sleeping. As Kyle was having yet another sleep over (cuz he is SPOILED that way :)I told the guys lights out at 2:30 and from there they fall asleep when they fall asleep. Groggy and tired he answered his phone. I said "Kyle SO sorry to wake you but I have a problem." "Whats wrong Mom ?" I told him what I'd done and asked him to please get dressed and go look for my phone, I again said I'm sorry but it may even be in the street. Now although my kids are good natured (hmm spell check tells me that's not a word, but CLEARLY I used it in a sentence lol) most of the time, NO ONE wants to get a phone call telling them to get dressed go out in the cold and search for something ESPECIALLY when they were asleep. But you know what he said ? "Its OK Mom, I'll find it." No grumbling, no attitude, just a willingness to help his poor Mom out. I post things like this that may make some of you roll your eyes and say *not again* and that's OK but there is a REASON I do this. Randy and I have a philosophy, a mission if you will when it comes to raising our kids it is simply this "Catch your children doing something GOOD and praise them for it." Its EASY to find fault, nag, gripe, complain, correct, pick at... but we have a responsibility to built our kids up, encourage, praise, and LOVE them like there's no tomorrow. Shedding light on good behavior causes them to want to repeat said good behavior. Again my kids are NOT perfect, but they do some pretty perfect things and you bet cha Randy and I are gonna keep "Catching that good behavior" no matter how old they get. So here's my challenge to YOU my friends that are parents, how bout you catch YOU kids doing something good and tell them... Then let me know how it goes ! There maybe many of you who already do this and if so GREAT keep it up because its just as important, actually more so, as feeding and sheltering them. The rewards are 10 fold the effort you may have to put in to find that good behavior ~ but it IS there to be found !! It was one week ago today that Kyle made a sincere commitment to God and us his family to step up his Spiritual life and OH how proud it makes me to say he has delivered in spades ! Thanx for reading... ♥ And in case you're wondering my Kyle did in deed find the phone, in the street ~ he's magic that way ! =)