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<blockquote data-quote="TeDo" data-source="post: 391860"><p><img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smug.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":smug:" title="smug :smug:" data-shortname=":smug:" />Thanks for the good advice Marg (as usual). I will try that "demonstration". It may be the only way he'll figure it out. I will try to explain it first but the demonstration will be what makes it real for him.</p><p> </p><p><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite5" alt=":confused:" title="Confused :confused:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":confused:" />As for 1:1 time, that is harder. When difficult child is calm and they are getting along, neither of them wants anything to do with me. When they aren't, it's a knock down drag out. I have the knife stab marks in my door to prove it. I can't just let that go. easy child knows better and I am only "assuming" the reasons he does it. I will talk to him over the holiday week-end. Maybe he and I can work all this out with explanations and compromising. He is intelligent enough to be able to process it with me once he has all the information and then he and I can set a time and day(s) of the week for 1:1 time.</p><p> </p><p>Wish me luck.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TeDo, post: 391860"] :smart:Thanks for the good advice Marg (as usual). I will try that "demonstration". It may be the only way he'll figure it out. I will try to explain it first but the demonstration will be what makes it real for him. :confused1:As for 1:1 time, that is harder. When difficult child is calm and they are getting along, neither of them wants anything to do with me. When they aren't, it's a knock down drag out. I have the knife stab marks in my door to prove it. I can't just let that go. easy child knows better and I am only "assuming" the reasons he does it. I will talk to him over the holiday week-end. Maybe he and I can work all this out with explanations and compromising. He is intelligent enough to be able to process it with me once he has all the information and then he and I can set a time and day(s) of the week for 1:1 time. Wish me luck.:winking: [/QUOTE]
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