The Protector

Nothing warms a father's heart like seeing his son protecting his little sister. After having dinner at a friend's house, we talked outside while the kids played. They were taking turns pushing my son on a tricycle. When our friends' boy walked away, our daughter took a turn pushing our son. The little boy saw it and ran back toward my daughter, grabbed her, and tried to tear her away from the tricycle, causing her to scream and cry. The instant my son saw the little boy attacking his little sister, he sprang from the tricycle after the little boy and pushed him away and yelled at him to leave her alone, scaring him away. Not seeing everything that happened, my wife and our friends looked confused, and my wife scolded our son a little for not being kind to the little boy. I explained that he was just protecting his sister, and we couldn't fault him for that. Then I whispered in his ear, "You did the right thing. I'm proud of you for protecting your sister." Interestingly, he acted out a few times later tonight and lost his book privileges. But we wanted him to know how proud we were of him for protecting his sister so we gave him one book back. He seemed to walk a little taller tonight, especially after we told him he was like Captain Moroni in our scripture story tonight.