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<blockquote data-quote="TeDo" data-source="post: 558213"><p>BABY STEPS! difficult child 1 isn't usually able to tell me (yet) that he needs time to calm down. I have to read his non-verbal cues and/or ask him. Usually, my cue is when he goes upstairs for no reason. Just a piece of advice from someone that's been there done that, when he came down complaining to you, I like how you said that "it wasn't what he said but HOW he said it and that it didn't sound nice", but I would have simply stopped talking after that. If difficult child 1 would keep it up, I would do the broken record routine, "no, I'm not going to make husband apologize because I heard the volume and tone of your voice and you weren't nice either" over and over until difficult child dropped the subject. I would definitely NOT have thrown in all "past" stuff. I know it's hard to do but all that does is beats them down. We have a rule in our house, "it's done, it's over now drop it". NO ONE is allowed to throw past mistakes in anyone's face.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TeDo, post: 558213"] BABY STEPS! difficult child 1 isn't usually able to tell me (yet) that he needs time to calm down. I have to read his non-verbal cues and/or ask him. Usually, my cue is when he goes upstairs for no reason. Just a piece of advice from someone that's been there done that, when he came down complaining to you, I like how you said that "it wasn't what he said but HOW he said it and that it didn't sound nice", but I would have simply stopped talking after that. If difficult child 1 would keep it up, I would do the broken record routine, "no, I'm not going to make husband apologize because I heard the volume and tone of your voice and you weren't nice either" over and over until difficult child dropped the subject. I would definitely NOT have thrown in all "past" stuff. I know it's hard to do but all that does is beats them down. We have a rule in our house, "it's done, it's over now drop it". NO ONE is allowed to throw past mistakes in anyone's face. [/QUOTE]
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