[bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: Life after children
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:42:26 -0700 (PDT)
Your Emily sounds like my younger daughter. She had
such tantrums I was really worried that there was
something wrong with her. My elder daughter was fine.
Once she had a tantrum--lay down on the driveway and
kicked and screamed. We just ignored her and she
stopped. That didn't work with the other one,
though--she just went on and on.
Looking back, I realize that the difference is that
the elder one cared more what we--and other
people--thought, and the younger one didn't. Being
somewhat independent and not modifying one's behaviour
because of what other people think of ou can be a good
thing, but it's sure difficult to raise a child like
that. She also never would apologize or admit
whenshe was wrong.
Now, however, like your daughter, both of mine, at the
ages of 36 and soon-to-be 35 are fine young ladies
successful in their careers and the other aspects of
their lives. My younger daughter even does apologize
and admit when she's wrong occasionally. And they
help each other, giving each other advice and taking
it-- although, havng very different personalities,
they didn't always get along, and still occasionally
get on each others' nerves. Fortunately they live in
different cities, so when they get together for short
periods of time they can get along.
Cindy
-- Kaitlyn Hill <Kaitlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> When Emily was in her 2's she use to get these fits.
> There was one time we
> went out to keep and as you walked in they has a
> large counter full of Greek
> pastries. Well she got it in her that she wanted
> one. We explained that we
> could all get something after we had some dinner.
> Well, she went on and on
> crying and we just finally told the waiter that we
> would have to go. All the
> way home, she couldn't stop crying, but kept saying
> "I'll stop crying".
> After that those little fits seemed to lessen.
>
> She also had the hardest time saying she was sorry
> for something. She would
> rather go to her room before she would let that word
> cross her lips.
>
> God, I wish I had it on tape today. There was one
> time she got sent to her
> room and...
> We sat outside of the door trying not to laugh...
> It was " someone, please, I'm dying in here, someone
> help me, please"
>
> But she did grow out of all of those and turned out
> to be a very pretty
> successful lady with a great life ahead of her
> still. She is 23 now:)
>
> Can you tell she has a proud Mom!
>
> Kaitlyn
> Healing Practitioner
> "The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call
> life, which is required to
> be exchanged for it immediately or in the long run."
> Henry Thoreau
>
>
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> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: Life after
> children
>
> Cindy, that sounds fascinating! It seems to me that
> my mother did something
> similar with at least one of her five children. I
> haven't had to do that
> yet, but my husband did take one of the boys out of
> church recently. It was
> Jacob, and he was being a pain in the posterior. He
> took him outside the
> building, and whacked him on the butt and had a nice
> chat with him. Let's
> just say that Jacob stopped acting up. Instead he
> just goes around to the
> neighbors telling them that his mommy is naked.
>
> Kasondra Payne
>
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