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<blockquote data-quote="meowbunny" data-source="post: 158542" data-attributes="member: 3626"><p>My daughter is a professional badgerer and one who insists on apologies. It became a power play for both of us. I finally grew up. If I said or did something that would get an immediate apology had I said or done that to another person, my daughter deserves the same apology whether she started the incident or not. The nice thing was it took the wings out of her sails quickly. Once we had both cooled down, then we would discuss the entire incident and what we both could have done to stop things from going too far. Didn't work all the time but it did most.</p><p> </p><p>As to the food issues, I'm afraid your son would get little sympathy from me. If you truly don't like what I'm fixing, then feel free to fix you something but you will eat at the table with me (or not eat again until the next meal) -- you know the menu (I used to write it on a white board in the kitchen). Demands for "real food" from restaurants were not only ignored but would guaranty that our Friday night out to dinner was gone for that week. Sorry, I would find those demands absolutely intolerable and the you fix me a substitute would probably result in regales of laughter on my part.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="meowbunny, post: 158542, member: 3626"] My daughter is a professional badgerer and one who insists on apologies. It became a power play for both of us. I finally grew up. If I said or did something that would get an immediate apology had I said or done that to another person, my daughter deserves the same apology whether she started the incident or not. The nice thing was it took the wings out of her sails quickly. Once we had both cooled down, then we would discuss the entire incident and what we both could have done to stop things from going too far. Didn't work all the time but it did most. As to the food issues, I'm afraid your son would get little sympathy from me. If you truly don't like what I'm fixing, then feel free to fix you something but you will eat at the table with me (or not eat again until the next meal) -- you know the menu (I used to write it on a white board in the kitchen). Demands for "real food" from restaurants were not only ignored but would guaranty that our Friday night out to dinner was gone for that week. Sorry, I would find those demands absolutely intolerable and the you fix me a substitute would probably result in regales of laughter on my part. [/QUOTE]
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