DS about grandma: "I'm ignoring her"

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DS about grandma: "I'm ignoring her"
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Mon, 02-26-2007 - 2:38am

For a little background, my mom lives five minutes away, but doesn't have much of a relationship with my boys.

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Mon, 02-26-2007 - 11:43am

Well, if it makes you feel any better, I believe Henry does that all the time.


So far, he hasn't used the words "ignoring", but if I told him what that meant, I'd bet fat stacks of cash that he would tell me that.


Kids are odd.


All kids.


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Registered: 10-03-2004

Evelyn,

You are assuming that this has to do with your mother, but I'd like to offer an observation about your story. If that's the way your mother talks, and I bet, being the very good writer that you are, you are describing the way she talked to David extremely accurately, WELL ...

She didn't ask him A question, she asked him 5 in a row very rapidly. Malcolm would have been back at the first one still thinking/processing but also being interrupted by the next ones, and then quickly would have given up thinking about the "sweater" question completely. Too hard to put together what he was being asked. Does your dad talk to him like this? I bet he only asks one question at a time...

Just a thought.

Sara

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Mon, 02-26-2007 - 10:31pm

I like what Sara had to say, can I put in a request for a blinkie that says "I agree with Sara"--?


I'm reading a book right now and the latest chapter is talking about wandering and wondering minds.

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Mon, 02-26-2007 - 11:12pm

Chris did that today. I took him to the dentist and long story short we had to reschedule for a complicated reason. Not complicated to me, but complicated to him.

I said okay well you get to go to school after all. He became extremely upset and frustaited because he didn't know how to handle all of the questions everyone including the teacher was going to ask him when he got to school.

I gave him some concret examples of what he could say, but he just kept saying that he will forget it by the time he gets there and not know how to answer.

He was so upset, it was killing me. I ended up letting him stay home. FRankly I didn't know what else to do.

Lainie

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Registered: 06-25-2003

Evelyn


I used to do things like that all the time.


It was less a question of ignoring someone, but I found some people so distracting or overwhelming, that I would get

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