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<blockquote data-quote="witzend" data-source="post: 155591" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>Going through this type of thing with my family, I'm interested in why you let them go. I'm probably not the best judge of how to deal with family tumult right now. I am on a zero tolerance policy, and my kids are adults.</p><p></p><p>In hindsight, I wouldn't have let my kids be with those people. I mean, we teach our kids to "respect adults" (that never seems to include us) and admire grandma and grandpa, so on and so forth. Then those adults turn around and tell them what pieces of junk we are. It seems like a battle, and there's only one of us. They gang up on you and our difficult child's seem gleeful to join the opposing side. At least mine do. And now that they're adults, they seem to feel that they are all grown up and joining the rest of the adults in their poor opinion of me. They prop each other up.</p><p></p><p>I don't know your family, or your history. If it is like my situation, in hindsight I should have stood up for myself <em>way</em> earlier and never let my kids think it was ok to join what amounts to a gang of bullies with me as the fall guy for all of their problems.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="witzend, post: 155591, member: 99"] Going through this type of thing with my family, I'm interested in why you let them go. I'm probably not the best judge of how to deal with family tumult right now. I am on a zero tolerance policy, and my kids are adults. In hindsight, I wouldn't have let my kids be with those people. I mean, we teach our kids to "respect adults" (that never seems to include us) and admire grandma and grandpa, so on and so forth. Then those adults turn around and tell them what pieces of junk we are. It seems like a battle, and there's only one of us. They gang up on you and our difficult child's seem gleeful to join the opposing side. At least mine do. And now that they're adults, they seem to feel that they are all grown up and joining the rest of the adults in their poor opinion of me. They prop each other up. I don't know your family, or your history. If it is like my situation, in hindsight I should have stood up for myself [i]way[/i] earlier and never let my kids think it was ok to join what amounts to a gang of bullies with me as the fall guy for all of their problems. [/QUOTE]
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