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Do You Drive Your Kids to School?
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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 330383" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>This sounds SOOOOO very familiar to me. It drove me absolutely around the bend when Wiz lived with us. Heck, even the whole "cleaned out his own junk from the car and thought he deserved a flippin' medal of valor for it" (how I used to describe the battles to get him to clean out the car) negotiation.</p><p></p><p>IF you are not responsible for getting him to school, then maybe it is time to learn the smile and nod bobblehead routine. Over on Parents Emeritus it is a technique that comes with detachment. Let him handle school and school troubles on his own. Since all you get out of the whole interaction about school is a headache, smile and nod with whatever his latest scheme is, ask politely (IF you care to comment) "how will you do that?" and then go about YOUR business.</p><p></p><p>Wish I had some magic technique to get past the arguing and negotiating. My mom taught my son to negotiate as a toddler. She thought it was a RIOT when he would negotiate consequences at age 2. When we sent him to live with her at 14 she was a LOT let amused by this. </p><p></p><p>You have all of my sympathies.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 330383, member: 1233"] This sounds SOOOOO very familiar to me. It drove me absolutely around the bend when Wiz lived with us. Heck, even the whole "cleaned out his own junk from the car and thought he deserved a flippin' medal of valor for it" (how I used to describe the battles to get him to clean out the car) negotiation. IF you are not responsible for getting him to school, then maybe it is time to learn the smile and nod bobblehead routine. Over on Parents Emeritus it is a technique that comes with detachment. Let him handle school and school troubles on his own. Since all you get out of the whole interaction about school is a headache, smile and nod with whatever his latest scheme is, ask politely (IF you care to comment) "how will you do that?" and then go about YOUR business. Wish I had some magic technique to get past the arguing and negotiating. My mom taught my son to negotiate as a toddler. She thought it was a RIOT when he would negotiate consequences at age 2. When we sent him to live with her at 14 she was a LOT let amused by this. You have all of my sympathies. [/QUOTE]
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