Chapter 4
You’re
in Charge
The boys were out in the shed working on the go-cart. Our
daughter went out to call them for dinner.
“You both are to go inside, wash up and get ready for dinner.
Right now!” she announced authoritatively.
“Are the boys coming in?” my wife inquired,
when our daughter
had returned to the house alone.
“I called them,” she said, with a look
that betrayed her attempt to
pull a power play on the boys.
Why hadn’t the boys come in? Because it was their sister who had
called them and they were not about to obey based on her authority.
She returned to the shed with the same message and added two
powerful words, “Mother said … ”
Our daughter did not have the authority
to order the boys into the
house. The second time she called the boys, she called them as the
agent of their mother. They knew it was time to come.
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