Wednesday, August 15, 2007
<<==Communicating==>>
I realized the other day that lately, my daughter will tell me, with great excitement, about whats happening at band camp...but when my wife asks (with obvious interest), she just gives the bare facts, if that. I feel badly about that, and I make sure that I tell her what my daughter tells me. I think its a phase, and I know that the chances are the reverse will happen at some point...but still, I feel badly about it.
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It'll pass. It might take about six years, but it'll pass.
:)
Like a REALLY big kidney stone...
This morning, she's showing the effects of not getting home from band camp until 920 PM, and then having to be up by 7 to go to the orthodontist, and then off to camp for the entire day. She is REALLY going to be one tired puppy tonight, but at the moment, she's just one surly one.
Odds are she doesn't realize she's even doing that.
Maybe she senses your wife will listen and then ask questions that she doesn't want to be read the wrong way for one reason or another. Usually at this age they are striving for more secrecy and independence and mothers tend to be the one to put the kibosh to most of it.
So she probably sees you as the least controlling of the two parents. Kids know.
Well, its certainly true that I'm more easy going. Her mother is better at holding her to standards, reminding her of things she has to do. I do that, too, but I tend to do it gently, as suggestions, whereas her mother tends to do it as Here's What You Have To Do. Neither approach is best, though I do try to, if not adopt her style, at least not negate it. Not aways successful at that.
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