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Your daughter is crying because Mom has been gone, and she only has you to depend on right now. So she lets you know she needs your help and you blow her off and say ask your mother when she gets home because I'm not going to be here. Not knowing how long life actually is, she only sees the present and is a little scared. I'm assuming you told your wife that your daughter began crying. Your wife saw your daughters side right away (what's more important, doing something for your kid or the conference? To you? Obviously the conference. To your daughter? She can't see the whole picture, she's just a kid.) and told you to pick it up. You then become the hero to your daughter. I don't see the wife's reaction as snappish at all. She's female and saw it more emotionally than logically like you do.
Whoa. Blew her off? The conference is more important? That's a bit exaggerated.
Kids cry all the time for no reason at all. They'll also cry for something other than, in this case, oak tag. She could be very well be crying about the oak tag, but neither of the three are valid reasons to change the plan he said they had for two weeks. He could try and find out what the issue is and help her to see the whole picture. That doesn't mean she should get her way or that he has to "step up". Part of good parenting is consistency and discipline. Short of some actual derailment of the plan, there is no reason for the plan to change. Crying isn't considered something that "comes up", like mom's flight being cancelled.
Whoa. Blew her off? The conference is more important? That's a bit exaggerated.
Kids cry all the time for no reason at all. They'll also cry for something other than, in this case, oak tag. She could be very well be crying about the oak tag, but neither of the three are valid reasons to change the plan he said they had for two weeks. He could try and find out what the issue is and help her to see the whole picture. That doesn't mean she should get her way or that he has to "step up". Part of good parenting is consistency and discipline. Short of some actual derailment of the plan, there is no reason for the plan to change. Crying isn't considered something that "comes up", like mom's flight being cancelled.
I think I'd be a little offended myself.
Agreed. She "could" have been crying because she couldn't get her way.
All he would have to do is tell his daughter that her mom was going to get the supplies for her and thats it. The mother has been gone and can easily get the supplies on her way home so he can get his business done.
Don't spoil a child. Please. I see so many parents do this and it's sickening. It really is.
Agreed. She "could" have been crying because she couldn't get her way.
All he would have to do is tell his daughter that her mom was going to get the supplies for her and thats it. The mother has been gone and can easily get the supplies on her way home so he can get his business done.
Don't spoil a child. Please. I see so many parents do this and it's sickening. It really is.
I think, she's tired and cranky from being away from home, your kid is stressed from revolving door parenting, and you are stressed from being an only parent all week. You're both busy and tired. Bickering won't help...just one of you needs to get it done, as soon as one of you gets a chance. Your daughter will survive I am sure.
Agreed. She "could" have been crying because she couldn't get her way.
All he would have to do is tell his daughter that her mom was going to get the supplies for her and thats it. The mother has been gone and can easily get the supplies on her way home so he can get his business done.
Don't spoil a child. Please. I see so many parents do this and it's sickening. It really is.
Yeah, kids are running the show and people wonder why they lose control of them. This stuff about them being kids and teens and they don't know any better is just hogwash. It is our job to teach them to know better. This is a good example of a good opportunity to do so.
I'll get my 11 year old whatever she needs and will not create a psychological void that Daddy isn't there for her. And it's not a sports car, it's only for a school project.
My profession, conferences and everything else will take the backseat if I were a father.
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