I know every single woman on Earth has sworn she would not grow up to be like her mother and probably most of us have eaten those words in one form or another. The lucky few of us who are no longer blind to how awesome our mothers actually were all along, don’t try to hide it.
A couple retorts that were pretty regular in my house were things like, “I’m the Mommy, that’s why,” (she even had a cross-stitched shrine to herself with this saying hanging in the laundry room), “Wait until your father gets home,” (what non-single mother on Earth didn’t use this one I ask you), and the ever-classic, “Who said life is supposed to be fair?”
Okay. So maybe I internally rolled my eyes at these when I was young. I’m sure my own children will one day be doing the same thing. Continue reading “How To Make Your Child Obey (Part 1)”
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