OT - my life just to let you all know (LONG)

Advice I am happy to follow. Thanks for another good tale.

Deirdre

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 4:55:59 -0400, Kathy N-V
wrote:

enjoy the beads and be kind to one another.

In article ,
says...

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 2:02:03 -0400, Kalera Stratton wrote
(in message ):

and that "will you please pick your shoes up and put them in your room"
is a polite way of telling them to go do it... not a real question, just
a way of stating my requirement that allows them to maintain dignity by
cooperating.

Mine is "How about getting those old glasses and stuff out of the living
room? I'd be so happy if it was clean before you watched television."

One time, DD complained that I ask for things like she really had a choice,
when it was obvious she did not. I told her that I'd be happy to re-word my
request: "Clean the dishes up now, and I'd best not hear the television
before you're done." She chose my usual style.

Seems to me as though there's a middle ground to be had between "non-choice
question" and "rude demand" -- the polite request. "Please move the dishes from
the living room into the dishwasher before you turn on the TV." That's the
approach I take with my partner's daughter.

Celine

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In article , Kathy N-V
writes:

we took an orange, put it
in the middle of the street and watched.

DD was about three, but she got the message.

My kiddo would have run right out to view it up close....
Kaytee
"Simplexities" on
www.eclecticbeadery.com
http://www.rubylane.com/shops/simplexities

I am always so disturbed when I see a parent of a toddler
saying, in that sicky-sweet helpless voice, "Is it OK if we put that
down/leave/eat/whatever now? Can you listen to Mommy? OK? Please?"

This is very disturbing. I see it a lot.
~~
Sooz
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"Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewelry." John
Lennon (1940 - 1980) Royal Varieties Performance
~ Dr. Sooz's Bead Links
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"When Barney laughs
like a pedophile one more time, I'm......

Haw! HAW! choking HAWGGGHH
~~
Sooz
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"Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewelry." John
Lennon (1940 - 1980) Royal Varieties Performance
~ Dr. Sooz's Bead Links
http://airandearth.netfirms.com/soozlinkslist.html

O.M.G.!!!!!! Holy crap, your DD has said the funniest things!!!

--
Kandice Seeber
Air & Earth Designs
http://www.lampwork.net

.... Utterly frustrated, I yelled,
"Jesus H. Christ! When are you going to stop stalling and go to bed!?!"

Cooly, and utterly unimpressed with my outburst, she replied, "Hey lookit.
I'm three years old. I stall. That's what I do. When I'm four I'll do
something else. Them's the breaks."

No idea where she'd get such a gift with the vernacular, either...

Deirdre

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 15:47:07 -0700, vj wrote:

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Kathy N-V
:

]Cooly, and utterly unimpressed with my outburst, she replied, "Hey lookit.
]I'm three years old. I stall. That's what I do. When I'm four I'll do
]something else. Them's the breaks."

what a marvelous child!!!!!!!


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