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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 469670" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>I TOTALLY know how you feel. been there done that. Other than a few people I was close to and felt I could talk to, the others heard that we were fine or doing all right, or some other nonspecific answer. It just wasn't worth my energy to answer their questions.</p><p></p><p>I told a lot of the family members who said things like you were asked that it wasn't their business and that they needed to pay some more attention to their own kids and let me raise mine my way. Mostly I avoided them after a few years. Esp when they could watch their kids do something and then try to tell me that my child did it. Yeah. Right. Sure I will pay to have your couch cleaned because YOUR child took a jar of food coloring out of YOUR kitchen and finger painted with it. Esp after I took the food coloring away twice and the 2nd time you handed it back to the child and told me not to be "mean". meanwhile MY kids were playing with toys or reading a book because they were tired of your child doing stupid things that were going to get him in trouble (like using food coloring as fingerpaint and the couch as paper!). </p><p></p><p>Not.</p><p></p><p>This is where you come for support. If you are lucky you will know 1 person or family who "gets it" and loves you anyway. I have 2 real world friends who were like that. We met at a homeschool coop and I still miss them greatly because we had to move away a few years back. </p><p></p><p>I will say that the people I met/meet in homeschool groups may not really understand what a difficult child is, but they are a TON more tolerant than most others I have ever met.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 469670, member: 1233"] I TOTALLY know how you feel. been there done that. Other than a few people I was close to and felt I could talk to, the others heard that we were fine or doing all right, or some other nonspecific answer. It just wasn't worth my energy to answer their questions. I told a lot of the family members who said things like you were asked that it wasn't their business and that they needed to pay some more attention to their own kids and let me raise mine my way. Mostly I avoided them after a few years. Esp when they could watch their kids do something and then try to tell me that my child did it. Yeah. Right. Sure I will pay to have your couch cleaned because YOUR child took a jar of food coloring out of YOUR kitchen and finger painted with it. Esp after I took the food coloring away twice and the 2nd time you handed it back to the child and told me not to be "mean". meanwhile MY kids were playing with toys or reading a book because they were tired of your child doing stupid things that were going to get him in trouble (like using food coloring as fingerpaint and the couch as paper!). Not. This is where you come for support. If you are lucky you will know 1 person or family who "gets it" and loves you anyway. I have 2 real world friends who were like that. We met at a homeschool coop and I still miss them greatly because we had to move away a few years back. I will say that the people I met/meet in homeschool groups may not really understand what a difficult child is, but they are a TON more tolerant than most others I have ever met. [/QUOTE]
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