With my wife and I painting our basement guest bedroom this past week, we made the decision to convert that room to a playroom so it could be used more than once or twice a year. We were both skeptical as to the result though as neither of us could picture our oldest actually WANTING to go to the basement (where he thinks there are lots of spiders and scary stuff) to play and furthermore we didn't think he'd ever do it by himself without one of us having to be down there with him.
Well, we got the room painted and all the furniture shifted and then had the boys help us start to bring down all their toys, organizing them (and thankfully getting all those pieces back together from their resting places in different rooms) and let the boys start playing down there. To our amazement, both boys willingly go down to the basement daily and stay in that room for hours playing. It has also meant that their bedrooms are cleaner as is our living room and they so far are actually cleaning up the toys they play with. Granted it has only been a week, but it has been a great week for us...although we wish we had kept that baby monitor so we could keep tabs on them down there...hmmm, maybe mommy and daddy have some fear they need to overcome too...like worrying about the kids playing together in another room of the house. Is that crying or laughing?
Oh well. Thank you God for granting our boys the courage to face their fears and may you grant some of that courage to my wife and I to help us let them fact those fears. Amen
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