Here's the scenario: we are in church and the pastor is speaking. Every week I see at least a half dozen people who decide they have to get up to do something during the message.
IT DRIVES ME INSANE!!!
Nothing is more distracting than people getting up while someone is talking. It is disrupts my focus on what is being said and I know that the speaker notices as well. What is even more frustrating is that most of those people getting up are kids!!
Today, my daughter whispers to me that she had to go to the bathroom. I told her to wait. I am not going to be one of those parents that allows her children to get up whenever they want. They will learn to respect the person talking and find an appropriate time to use the facilities.
Now I know there are some of you that are thinking, "What if she REALLY had to go?" She actually had asked me a second time. I told her that if she had to go that badly, she would have to spend the rest of the service in the lobby. She decided it wasn't that urgent.
I called her bluff. If it was an emergency she would have bolted. I think we, as a society, have forgotten our manners when someone is speaking. My goal in teaching my middle school girl is that everyone is to be respected including speakers on a stage.
Ironically, when we picked up our other child from his class he had to use the bathroom. Because he is younger, they have a bathroom available in the room. When I asked him why he didn't go earlier he said, "I didn't want to leave in the middle and miss all the fun!"
That's my boy!
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