Re: Rude or am I expecting too much?


<cailleach@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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toypup wrote:

I did have an incident when we were visiting IL's. Those visits tend to
wear the kids out, because we are somewhere everyday. We visited some
friends of their family and he was given a football. It was time to
leave
and he was very tired and grumpy and said he didn't like it -- wouldn't
aplogize, wouldn't say thank you. ... Any suggestions?

How about -- apologise for him, get him out of there, and after you get
home, insist that he write/make a thank-you note. Use whatever threats
you like until the job's done!

We did aplogize for him. IL's also apologize. I like the thank-you note
idea; though at the time, he couldn't write. He can now, so we will do
that. Thanks.

Moments like these are just so embarrassing. The fact that we don't spank
and we can't get him to turn around and say "thank you" just makes me feel
like a bad mom, because others get the impression that we don't discipline
and are just letting it slide.


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