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<blockquote data-quote="slsh" data-source="post: 271643" data-attributes="member: 8"><p>Well first off, thank *goodness* you are safe!!! OMG, that would have left me trembling. I may be off on this completely (probably am) but I wouldn't put a whole lot of stock into difficult child in training's comments yesterday post explosion. At 10, he's so young and... well, I tend to try to (over)protect my kids from the randomness of life. Growing up in a family with a difficult child is random enough, you know? So I think your reassurance that you are okay is enough (I think). I'm not sure there's a healthy way to prepare our kids for those kinds of unknowns without making them totally neurotic, other than by dealing with the less serious randomness appropriately ourselves and pointing out how we dealt with it. Does that make any sense at all? I guess what I'm saying is walking them thru the problem solving that comes with the daily unexpected stuff, as well as talking about the emotions that the unexpected can bring, i.e. any kind of mechanical malfunction (car, washer, dryer, flood) just flips me out emotionally but it sure doesn't fix the problem. Over the years the scale of my flip out has dramatically decreased and now I can just figure out how to fix it with minimal drama. I think that's so important to teach our kids - how to take care of a problem. I don't really ever remember learning that growing up.</p><p> </p><p>Small steps with a difficult child are huge leaps! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p> </p><p>As far as easy child - he'll figure it out when he has to. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> Necessity being the mother of... self-sufficiency?</p><p> </p><p>Sounds like it was a pretty doggone good week, all things considered.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slsh, post: 271643, member: 8"] Well first off, thank *goodness* you are safe!!! OMG, that would have left me trembling. I may be off on this completely (probably am) but I wouldn't put a whole lot of stock into difficult child in training's comments yesterday post explosion. At 10, he's so young and... well, I tend to try to (over)protect my kids from the randomness of life. Growing up in a family with a difficult child is random enough, you know? So I think your reassurance that you are okay is enough (I think). I'm not sure there's a healthy way to prepare our kids for those kinds of unknowns without making them totally neurotic, other than by dealing with the less serious randomness appropriately ourselves and pointing out how we dealt with it. Does that make any sense at all? I guess what I'm saying is walking them thru the problem solving that comes with the daily unexpected stuff, as well as talking about the emotions that the unexpected can bring, i.e. any kind of mechanical malfunction (car, washer, dryer, flood) just flips me out emotionally but it sure doesn't fix the problem. Over the years the scale of my flip out has dramatically decreased and now I can just figure out how to fix it with minimal drama. I think that's so important to teach our kids - how to take care of a problem. I don't really ever remember learning that growing up. Small steps with a difficult child are huge leaps! ;) As far as easy child - he'll figure it out when he has to. ;) Necessity being the mother of... self-sufficiency? Sounds like it was a pretty doggone good week, all things considered. [/QUOTE]
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