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<blockquote data-quote="busywend" data-source="post: 354079" data-attributes="member: 391"><p>I gave up trying to get my difficult child to be respectful to me. She said to me one day, "stop trying to make me something I am not." </p><p>So, to her I was not demanding respect from my child, I was demanding that she change who she is. That opened my eyes. </p><p>I started letting it all slide by. I became the master at detachment. </p><p>Low and behold, at almost 19 - I get the respect I tried to enforce for the last 8 years. Not 100% of the time. </p><p> </p><p>Sometimes you just don't get to parent the way you want to parent, you parent the way the child needs to be parented.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="busywend, post: 354079, member: 391"] I gave up trying to get my difficult child to be respectful to me. She said to me one day, "stop trying to make me something I am not." So, to her I was not demanding respect from my child, I was demanding that she change who she is. That opened my eyes. I started letting it all slide by. I became the master at detachment. Low and behold, at almost 19 - I get the respect I tried to enforce for the last 8 years. Not 100% of the time. Sometimes you just don't get to parent the way you want to parent, you parent the way the child needs to be parented. [/QUOTE]
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