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Is Anyone Else Here Coping With Aging difficult child Parents?
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<blockquote data-quote="1 Day At a Time" data-source="post: 60132" data-attributes="member: 3704"><p>Thanks Marg,</p><p></p><p>I just love your win-win outcome with your mother in law. You all have really stepped up to the plate - and she gets her own place and independence but you all are able to keep an eye on her. Perfect outcome. Ultimately I've been thinking that my mother may end up coming to live with us - and we plan on buying a house that will have an in-law suite - but I know that the independence piece is just huge. For now my mother has enjoyed decorating her new place, like your mother in law and this makes her tremendously happy. She has her new buddies and her volunteer jobs - and this is so, so important.</p><p>I had never heard about " The Explosive Child" until I started reading posts on this site, but I have since read it and it is truly very helpful. husband and I had kind of stumbled, bumbled into some of the techniques when parenting both of our boys - and we since tried some of the ones we would have never thought of on our own. It's true, they work with adults as well!</p><p>I love the Chinese mother-in-law story. It's a great visual to keep in mind while I drive and drive and for the times that I keep my thoughts (and my tongue) to myself. It makes perfect sense that an ancient culture with very strong "relationship" rules would have this figured out. It kind makes you wonder, though, about the way the Chinese have decided that they don't want girls in their quest for the one child family. Where will they be getting the daugher-in-laws that they so desperately need?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="1 Day At a Time, post: 60132, member: 3704"] Thanks Marg, I just love your win-win outcome with your mother in law. You all have really stepped up to the plate - and she gets her own place and independence but you all are able to keep an eye on her. Perfect outcome. Ultimately I've been thinking that my mother may end up coming to live with us - and we plan on buying a house that will have an in-law suite - but I know that the independence piece is just huge. For now my mother has enjoyed decorating her new place, like your mother in law and this makes her tremendously happy. She has her new buddies and her volunteer jobs - and this is so, so important. I had never heard about " The Explosive Child" until I started reading posts on this site, but I have since read it and it is truly very helpful. husband and I had kind of stumbled, bumbled into some of the techniques when parenting both of our boys - and we since tried some of the ones we would have never thought of on our own. It's true, they work with adults as well! I love the Chinese mother-in-law story. It's a great visual to keep in mind while I drive and drive and for the times that I keep my thoughts (and my tongue) to myself. It makes perfect sense that an ancient culture with very strong "relationship" rules would have this figured out. It kind makes you wonder, though, about the way the Chinese have decided that they don't want girls in their quest for the one child family. Where will they be getting the daugher-in-laws that they so desperately need? [/QUOTE]
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