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Does anyone want to play "difficult child mystery"?
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<blockquote data-quote="Andy" data-source="post: 386241" data-attributes="member: 5096"><p>Instead of asking right out, "Did you do this?" try, "I just discovered that the clothes in the bottom of the box are wet. I am pretty certain I checked them yesterday (or whenever) and they were o.k. at that time. It doesn't appear that we have received enough rain to flood the garage. Does anyone know what might have happened? Was something leaking? Just need to fix something if there is an ongoing problem. And can someone help me hang out the wet clothes or carry them to the dryer?"</p><p> </p><p>That way you are announcing that you have noticed it but you are not pointing fingers that might get the reaction you do not want.</p><p> </p><p>It is a challenge to keep things on the "hmmm, this is a mystery - wonder what happened" level instead of questioning everyone around which can lead to unwanted further behaviors. Get him to join in as a fellow detective and help clean it up as you do so.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Andy, post: 386241, member: 5096"] Instead of asking right out, "Did you do this?" try, "I just discovered that the clothes in the bottom of the box are wet. I am pretty certain I checked them yesterday (or whenever) and they were o.k. at that time. It doesn't appear that we have received enough rain to flood the garage. Does anyone know what might have happened? Was something leaking? Just need to fix something if there is an ongoing problem. And can someone help me hang out the wet clothes or carry them to the dryer?" That way you are announcing that you have noticed it but you are not pointing fingers that might get the reaction you do not want. It is a challenge to keep things on the "hmmm, this is a mystery - wonder what happened" level instead of questioning everyone around which can lead to unwanted further behaviors. Get him to join in as a fellow detective and help clean it up as you do so. [/QUOTE]
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