Re: Rude or am I expecting too much?


Engram wrote:
"bizby40" <bizby40@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I don't think her behavior was out of the norm for her age. Yes, she
should have said thank you, and yes, many kids would have done so at her
age. But many would still need prompting by an adult -- even if they'd
been taught to say it from a young age. As for looking around hopefully
for the present? Normal. And not reacting enthusiastically about the
present she'd been begging for? *sigh* Also quite normal. <======speaking
from experience.

I figured that looking around for the present was pretty normal and that
thank you most likely slipped her mind. I guess it was the total dismissal
of the present after actually looking for it and saying she wanted it for so
long that kind of threw me. I suppose the real problem was my expectation
that she would at least acknowledge it rather than just cast it aside. LOL

Oh, well. I suppose my kids will do exactly the same thing to someone some
time in the future!

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Just a thought, could be it be that if she'd been after it for months -
did she have it already? I'm thinking back to when I was that age and
got a present twice and remember thinking I didnt know what to say and
just went quiet.

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