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Do you find it difficult to compliment your difficult child?
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<blockquote data-quote="trinityroyal" data-source="post: 141768" data-attributes="member: 3907"><p>This is one of those "it depends" answers.</p><p></p><p>My difficult child has a sense of entitlement as deep and wide as the ocean, and high on his list is that he's entitled to be told that he's the smartest, brightest, best looking, good at everything...etc.</p><p></p><p>He fishes for compliments all the time, but he does so with such a level of arrogance that I can't bring myself to cater to it. </p><p></p><p>Meowbunny, I also have a difficult time giving compliments for chores that are just part of the daily routine. A job well done is simply living up to my expectations of how a job should be done, and I don't see the need to provide a compliment on it.</p><p></p><p>Where I do compliment difficult child is when he has genuinely worked hard at something and done a good job, not because he's expecting to get praise or a reward out of it, but because he feels motivated to do his work well. Then I praise him for putting in the effort and doing the hard work.</p><p></p><p>Sadly, those moments are rare.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trinityroyal, post: 141768, member: 3907"] This is one of those "it depends" answers. My difficult child has a sense of entitlement as deep and wide as the ocean, and high on his list is that he's entitled to be told that he's the smartest, brightest, best looking, good at everything...etc. He fishes for compliments all the time, but he does so with such a level of arrogance that I can't bring myself to cater to it. Meowbunny, I also have a difficult time giving compliments for chores that are just part of the daily routine. A job well done is simply living up to my expectations of how a job should be done, and I don't see the need to provide a compliment on it. Where I do compliment difficult child is when he has genuinely worked hard at something and done a good job, not because he's expecting to get praise or a reward out of it, but because he feels motivated to do his work well. Then I praise him for putting in the effort and doing the hard work. Sadly, those moments are rare. [/QUOTE]
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