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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 497300" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>Confused - I have a different combo, but understand the "personality conflict" part of this. I'm a loner - my daughter is <strong><u>very</u></strong> social. I'm a person of few words - my daughter talks everybody's ear off... and if she has to write, she writes their eyeballs off. At the end of the day, I want peace and quiet... sit together reading our separate books, that kind of thing. And she... wants to talk off her stress so she can wind down... which just gets ME wound up. </p><p></p><p>But... she's much closer to easy child than difficult child. And, she's bright, and perceptive, and more or less receptive. So... I've learned that I have to <em>communicate, communicate and communicate some more</em>. I've explained that her "wind down" is my "stress out". We're negotiating other options. I'd rather give her a foot massage for 30 mins, than to listen to 30 mins of yak! Ok... so I give her 30 minutes of mommy time... when we start, I tell her how much "ears" I have tonight, she yaks for that, and we do hands-on, quiet stuff for the rest of it... anything from working together to groom the dogs, to french-braiding hair, to... whatever (last night, it was a board game).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 497300, member: 11791"] Confused - I have a different combo, but understand the "personality conflict" part of this. I'm a loner - my daughter is [B][U]very[/U][/B] social. I'm a person of few words - my daughter talks everybody's ear off... and if she has to write, she writes their eyeballs off. At the end of the day, I want peace and quiet... sit together reading our separate books, that kind of thing. And she... wants to talk off her stress so she can wind down... which just gets ME wound up. But... she's much closer to easy child than difficult child. And, she's bright, and perceptive, and more or less receptive. So... I've learned that I have to [I]communicate, communicate and communicate some more[/I]. I've explained that her "wind down" is my "stress out". We're negotiating other options. I'd rather give her a foot massage for 30 mins, than to listen to 30 mins of yak! Ok... so I give her 30 minutes of mommy time... when we start, I tell her how much "ears" I have tonight, she yaks for that, and we do hands-on, quiet stuff for the rest of it... anything from working together to groom the dogs, to french-braiding hair, to... whatever (last night, it was a board game). [/QUOTE]
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