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<blockquote data-quote="So Tired" data-source="post: 142280" data-attributes="member: 4772"><p>Heather,</p><p> </p><p>Sounds like you did an excellent job of keeping your cool and refusing to get sucked into her drama.</p><p> </p><p>Katya02,</p><p> </p><p>I agree 100% - If difficult child can engage you in some sort of confrontation, then he/she can somehow place blame for the current problem on you, not the result of their bad choices. It took me a long, long time to figure this out. It is so very hard not to say ANYTHING even if they are dinking around on their computer at 8:26 and they are supposed to be at work at 8:30! Grrrrrr.....so..hard...to..keep....quiet!!!</p><p> </p><p>But, I must remember that difficult child has to learn things himself, the hard way. If he loses his job, maybe then he will have internal motivation to get to work on time next time, instead of my external motivation of nagging.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="So Tired, post: 142280, member: 4772"] Heather, Sounds like you did an excellent job of keeping your cool and refusing to get sucked into her drama. Katya02, I agree 100% - If difficult child can engage you in some sort of confrontation, then he/she can somehow place blame for the current problem on you, not the result of their bad choices. It took me a long, long time to figure this out. It is so very hard not to say ANYTHING even if they are dinking around on their computer at 8:26 and they are supposed to be at work at 8:30! Grrrrrr.....so..hard...to..keep....quiet!!! But, I must remember that difficult child has to learn things himself, the hard way. If he loses his job, maybe then he will have internal motivation to get to work on time next time, instead of my external motivation of nagging. [/QUOTE]
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