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Need advice with what appears to be PASSIVE oppositional defiance disorder
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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 411768" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>I'm sure you are right about that, Daisy Face. But... I was a child once (and I guess you were too <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> ) and I remember what it was like not to want to go to the doctor but to prefer to go out to play... this seems to me the normal "business" of a child... Now I am on the other side of the fence and I understand that it is the normal business of an adult to want to get to the doctor's... Quite understandable that the adult should want the child to put the boots on - but it can happen without blame or admonition, it seems to me (if one is being really mindful!)</p><p>We forget all the time what it is like to be a child, that children just do not see the world as adults do (adults have not made such a great success of it) and that their reasoning and functioning is not that of the grown-up... The thing is, children are the easiest scapegoats of all our impatience, unkindness, unresolved anger and frustration - I absolutely include myself in this - and they need to be protected. In my humble opinion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 411768, member: 11227"] I'm sure you are right about that, Daisy Face. But... I was a child once (and I guess you were too :-) ) and I remember what it was like not to want to go to the doctor but to prefer to go out to play... this seems to me the normal "business" of a child... Now I am on the other side of the fence and I understand that it is the normal business of an adult to want to get to the doctor's... Quite understandable that the adult should want the child to put the boots on - but it can happen without blame or admonition, it seems to me (if one is being really mindful!) We forget all the time what it is like to be a child, that children just do not see the world as adults do (adults have not made such a great success of it) and that their reasoning and functioning is not that of the grown-up... The thing is, children are the easiest scapegoats of all our impatience, unkindness, unresolved anger and frustration - I absolutely include myself in this - and they need to be protected. In my humble opinion. [/QUOTE]
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