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One day at a time- new mantra
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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 526359" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>That sounds like a great goal, and way to a better relationship with difficult child and the rest of the family. it won't be easy, and maybe a family member can help work out a way to signal you if you chill out and another to help you stop when you start those machine gun questions and commments. Tugging an ear, saying a nonsense word like rutabega, jsut something.</p><p></p><p>Want a great way to not get made at dinner, to get everyone laughing? Try mad libs. Yup, those silly things where you each contribute a word and then you read the story and it is ridiculous and everyone laughs! We have done them at dinner since Wiz was about 3-4 and all the kids love them. And if the actual part of speech like adjective isn't familiar to someone at the table, call it a describing word, or some other easy description of what it is. Of course my kids have bodily functions in each one, so if you are squeamish make it a rule up front that you can't use pee or p o o p or curse words.</p><p></p><p>Having something to keep your mind busy during the meal, a shared and fun activity, is often a bg help at getting a parent to back off the questions. At least it helped me back off of them! (Plus I lost weight because I was laughing too hard to eat much! I wonder if a MadLib Diet could make me a fortune? jk!)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 526359, member: 1233"] That sounds like a great goal, and way to a better relationship with difficult child and the rest of the family. it won't be easy, and maybe a family member can help work out a way to signal you if you chill out and another to help you stop when you start those machine gun questions and commments. Tugging an ear, saying a nonsense word like rutabega, jsut something. Want a great way to not get made at dinner, to get everyone laughing? Try mad libs. Yup, those silly things where you each contribute a word and then you read the story and it is ridiculous and everyone laughs! We have done them at dinner since Wiz was about 3-4 and all the kids love them. And if the actual part of speech like adjective isn't familiar to someone at the table, call it a describing word, or some other easy description of what it is. Of course my kids have bodily functions in each one, so if you are squeamish make it a rule up front that you can't use pee or p o o p or curse words. Having something to keep your mind busy during the meal, a shared and fun activity, is often a bg help at getting a parent to back off the questions. At least it helped me back off of them! (Plus I lost weight because I was laughing too hard to eat much! I wonder if a MadLib Diet could make me a fortune? jk!) [/QUOTE]
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