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07-22-2010, 12:36 AM | #1 |
Rose Trellis
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What Should I Have Done?
The kids like to go to a fast food joint that offers free video games. We normally go at the dead hour in midafternoon, but this time we went during the lunch rush. Sophia was hogging a machine. I asked her to get up and give Eva a turn because we were leaving in 10 minutes. As soon as Sophia got up another boy sat down, so I said, "Excuse me, I asked my older daughter to get up so my younger daughter could have a turn, it's her turn now." I had to repeat myself a couple of times, "Please excuse me, I'm sorry, but it's Eva's turn." So his dad, who had been on the phone, told me that I should have interrupted his phone call and I was not to speak to someone else's child like that.
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07-22-2010, 12:40 AM | #2 |
Rose Garden
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Re: What Should I Have Done?
Dad should have been watching his kid. You did fine.
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07-22-2010, 02:13 AM | #3 |
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Re: What Should I Have Done?
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07-22-2010, 04:28 AM | #4 |
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Re: What Should I Have Done?
Yes. This.
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07-22-2010, 08:32 AM | #5 |
Rose Garden
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Re: What Should I Have Done?
oh man. that would have me so irritated for DAYS .i think you did fine too.
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07-22-2010, 12:13 PM | #6 |
Rose Garden
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Re: What Should I Have Done?
I would have done what you did too. I'm a big ole' mama bear about that kind of thing.
To him, I would have said, "Sir, I don't interrupt strangers on phones, but I do keep my kids from getting pushed around."
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07-22-2010, 12:19 PM | #7 |
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Re: What Should I Have Done?
I think you did fine, too. You weren't disciplining him or yelling at him; you were just telling him it wasn't his turn yet. And if the dad wasn't there to tell him, someone had to tell the kid.
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07-22-2010, 12:27 PM | #8 |
Rose Garden
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Re: What Should I Have Done?
you didn't yell at the kid, you just told him he was mistaken. If Dad wasn't paying attn too bad. You did just fine.
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