mstang67chic
Going Green
My aunt called me tonight and a thought occured to me. I was curious as to who else feels this way.
She called to tell me about an episode of PrimeTime (or one of those shows) that was on tonight and had a story about dealing with unruly children (her words....not sure if it was actually the title). My first response wasn't to immediately flip over to that channel to watch or to even wonder what it was about. My first instinct (although I thanked my aunt for her suggestion) was to be angry. Not necessarily at her, she meant well. But angry because it was just one more well meaning person saying, "Here's another thing you should do/try/use to "fix" your child." without knowing the full story or the first thing about his day to day issues vs. what they see or think they see. I don't know how many times I've had people tell me about shows/books/programs/whatever and say that I should look into it because they say they've had great results with this method.
I don't know why it just pushed my button tonight but it did. Enough so that I didn't even watch the show. I have no idea what it was about and I'm not even the least bit curious. I'm sure it's happened to a lot of us. How do you all deal with it?
She called to tell me about an episode of PrimeTime (or one of those shows) that was on tonight and had a story about dealing with unruly children (her words....not sure if it was actually the title). My first response wasn't to immediately flip over to that channel to watch or to even wonder what it was about. My first instinct (although I thanked my aunt for her suggestion) was to be angry. Not necessarily at her, she meant well. But angry because it was just one more well meaning person saying, "Here's another thing you should do/try/use to "fix" your child." without knowing the full story or the first thing about his day to day issues vs. what they see or think they see. I don't know how many times I've had people tell me about shows/books/programs/whatever and say that I should look into it because they say they've had great results with this method.
I don't know why it just pushed my button tonight but it did. Enough so that I didn't even watch the show. I have no idea what it was about and I'm not even the least bit curious. I'm sure it's happened to a lot of us. How do you all deal with it?