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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 248472" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>About saying unpleasant things in a tactful way - you look for the positive, and reinforce it. And you can ALWAYS say something positive! If you think about it, we get a lot of practice saying positive (but truthful) things when we try to find things to praise in our difficult children.</p><p></p><p>Many years ago when I was a child, I was reading a particular entry in "Personal Glimpses" in Readers Digest. It was an anecdote about an English king who went through a phase of beleiving himself to be a good singer, and trying to hire the foremost opera singer of the day to coach him. The opera singer, NOT wanting the job but also not wanting to offend the king, got out of it with extreme diplomacy by saying something like, "Your Majesty would have the most wonderful voice if only the upper register had the power and clarity so lacking in the lower."</p><p></p><p>Now THAT'S diplomacy!</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 248472, member: 1991"] About saying unpleasant things in a tactful way - you look for the positive, and reinforce it. And you can ALWAYS say something positive! If you think about it, we get a lot of practice saying positive (but truthful) things when we try to find things to praise in our difficult children. Many years ago when I was a child, I was reading a particular entry in "Personal Glimpses" in Readers Digest. It was an anecdote about an English king who went through a phase of beleiving himself to be a good singer, and trying to hire the foremost opera singer of the day to coach him. The opera singer, NOT wanting the job but also not wanting to offend the king, got out of it with extreme diplomacy by saying something like, "Your Majesty would have the most wonderful voice if only the upper register had the power and clarity so lacking in the lower." Now THAT'S diplomacy! Marg [/QUOTE]
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