This is probably more of a vent than anything, but wanted to here all your stories of when parents use good parenting techinques and for lack of a better word, "dont get it".
So today, I had a mom who's child came in with yucky hands. Obviously she had been eating her breakfast in the car. She must have had some kind of granola bar or something with chocolate in it. Her mom takes her shoes and coat off and takes her to the bathroom to wash her hands. The daughter, who is 3, throws a fit and says she doesnt want to wash her hands. The mother turns the water off, brings daughter out of bathroom, says to me, "you know what they say, learn to pick your battles" and walks out the front door.
Oh my, guess it means back into the bathroom to wash our hands! Learning to pick your battles is a great techinique. But rules are rules here and we dont pick and choose which rules to follow!
So today, I had a mom who's child came in with yucky hands. Obviously she had been eating her breakfast in the car. She must have had some kind of granola bar or something with chocolate in it. Her mom takes her shoes and coat off and takes her to the bathroom to wash her hands. The daughter, who is 3, throws a fit and says she doesnt want to wash her hands. The mother turns the water off, brings daughter out of bathroom, says to me, "you know what they say, learn to pick your battles" and walks out the front door.
Oh my, guess it means back into the bathroom to wash our hands! Learning to pick your battles is a great techinique. But rules are rules here and we dont pick and choose which rules to follow!
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