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piDo you ever regret thinking out loud around difficult child?
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<blockquote data-quote="On_Call" data-source="post: 63211" data-attributes="member: 3211"><p>Triple ditto! </p><p></p><p>We have even gone to the extreme - if we are spending a day out with several activities, we only tell the munchkins what we're doing as we're pulling into the parking lot of each separate activity. That way, if the day falls into the pit, we just chalk it up to the fun we've already had and head home - no harm, no foul. If they don't know what we had on the schedule, they don't miss it if we don't get to do it.</p><p></p><p>We learned this the hard way over the years, because difficult child is so regimented and concrete. If plans changed, as they often do, he lost it.</p><p></p><p>He has gotten better about characterizing 'maybe' and 'somemtime' over the years, but it's still a slippery slope.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="On_Call, post: 63211, member: 3211"] Triple ditto! We have even gone to the extreme - if we are spending a day out with several activities, we only tell the munchkins what we're doing as we're pulling into the parking lot of each separate activity. That way, if the day falls into the pit, we just chalk it up to the fun we've already had and head home - no harm, no foul. If they don't know what we had on the schedule, they don't miss it if we don't get to do it. We learned this the hard way over the years, because difficult child is so regimented and concrete. If plans changed, as they often do, he lost it. He has gotten better about characterizing 'maybe' and 'somemtime' over the years, but it's still a slippery slope. [/QUOTE]
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