Uttoh!

Today I'm going to borrow a story from Terri Brady to illustrate my point. Terri is one of my favorite teachers, and uses stories of her children to highlight her message. Some background on the characters involved....
Terri's daughter is the cutest little thing with eyes as big as planets. She is the attention of every room she enters as her personality just shines through.

As Terri tells it, and all parents know, potty training can be a challenging time. Mistakes are made, and lessons are learned, Terri's daughter was no exception! A mother's keen senses can smell a soiled diaper rooms away and Terri had picked up the scent of an accident. Upon questioning her daughter, her bubbly personality came shining through as she admitted the accident, but seemed unphased as she attempted to turn a negative into a positive. While she explained to her mother how she had gone #2 in her britches, she batted those big eyes and invited her mother to join her in going #2 in her pants as well. Apparently it would make her feel more comfortable if others would join her in her situation, as unappealing as it was. A toddler's peer pressure! As tempting as the invitation was, Terri passed!

Terri's point was that we are often tempted to join in what we know is wrong by the pressure and influence of our peers. They can make it seem, oh so inviting, even though it's against our principles and everything we believe in. They can make it seem to be the right thing to do, because everyone is doing it, or the popular people are. Don't you want to go #2 in your pants too?

In a totally unrelated story, Fidel Castro, the United Nations , and the president of the World Health Organization have united in their praise of President Obama's healthcare victory. They were all so pleased to see he joined them in going #2 in his pants as well, and moved us all one step closer to the socialist model they all endorse.

God Bless!
Capt. Bill