ok so I'm sure the occassional subtle not so whiney voiced one slips past my radar but have just been on my hols with another family. "I want..." was either met with "of course dear" or "grr shut up I'm busy" ie theh response was entirely dictated not by the child's behaviour but by the parent's mood. I'm not purporting to be perfect and I am guilty of allowing my mood to affect my parenting (who isn't) but I swear in a week's holiday I never once heard "i want" met with a mood-neutral "how do you ask for things?" or "i don;t listen to girls who say I want" etc etc. would this drive you mad? it certainly did me.
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thewomanwhothoughtshewasahat · 23/07/2006 20:41
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