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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 474056" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Well, it's not as though he is really <em>calculating</em> about it - that would be sophisticated. It's just innate, an instinct. Like I say, he's always done it. He used to do it to get sweets in Morocco - would point to sweets making distressed eyes to the shopkeeper or pleading directly with the shopkeeper if I refused him; they would always want to give him one and remonstrate with me if I said we were just going to eat lunch or whatever... </p><p>It just seems to go with the territory, somehow. I don't blame him for it or judge, exactly - but I don't like the behaviour. People in Morocco used to say I was hard-hearted for refusing him things that he wanted sometimes. Being able to accept not always having what you want seems like a big character plus to me...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 474056, member: 11227"] Well, it's not as though he is really [I]calculating[/I] about it - that would be sophisticated. It's just innate, an instinct. Like I say, he's always done it. He used to do it to get sweets in Morocco - would point to sweets making distressed eyes to the shopkeeper or pleading directly with the shopkeeper if I refused him; they would always want to give him one and remonstrate with me if I said we were just going to eat lunch or whatever... It just seems to go with the territory, somehow. I don't blame him for it or judge, exactly - but I don't like the behaviour. People in Morocco used to say I was hard-hearted for refusing him things that he wanted sometimes. Being able to accept not always having what you want seems like a big character plus to me... [/QUOTE]
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