Fair Trade

On Monday our family had a family home evening lesson about the Anti-Nephi-Lehis. As part of the lesson our children traded in their personal DVD players in their bedrooms for baseball gloves and balls. The point being they were going to trade an unhealthy habit of watching too much TV for a better habit of playing outdoors. Monday and Tuesday's bedtimes went off without a hitch. The kids seemed fine going to bed without their TV pacifiers. But tonight when I handed Parker a nonfiction book about the Revolutionary War, a flashlight and told him to read in bed, he seemed less than enthusiastic about the idea.

"Mom, instead of trading my DVD player for a baseball glove, I want to trade something else."

I looked at him skeptically, "What?"

"This."

He held out one solitary green army man.

Good try, Parker.