Tag - childhood disputes

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Physical or a Feeling. What is Truly a Home?
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The Queen Bee and Her Court
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Should Schools Require Uniforms?
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She Said, She Said

Physical or a Feeling. What is Truly a Home?

Your house is small and dirty.  (So there.)  That statement was the trump card another child played in his argument with my oldest son (apparently over legos).  The six-year-old couldn’t have understood the “grown up” interpretation of his words, the comparisons made by adults in attempt to “win” in the material world and therefore life itself.  But neither could my 10-year-old son comprehend such craziness.  He was, not surprisingly, hurt by the critique.  Small and dirty implied his world was inadequate, that the place his father and mother provided for him was, well, small and dirty. When my son told me…

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The Queen Bee and Her Court

Is this merely a coincidence or just my hammer banging incessantly on everything in sight after I read Queen Bees and Wannabes?  Because I am really worried what will happen when I start the Hunger Games Trilogy… Oh, how the mighty fall.  It began with an uprising during recess and ended with a phone call from my daughter’s wonderful first-grade teacher.  It had been a rough week on the playground for my little Queen…as my daughter was anointed when the friendly game of “Princess”  began a week before.  Of course she was on top of the world in the starring role, using her “power”…

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Should Schools Require Uniforms?

Recently my daughter and her friends dressed up like princesses for school so they could pretend at recess they were the real deal.  I have to say I was impressed these little girls coordinated the effort to gussy-up in their Sunday Best and relieved my daughter didn’t don a flamboyant Halloween costume instead.  It was darn adorable, seeing my daughter wear her frilliest dress with a layered skirt beneath for extra poofy-ness.  She topped off the ensemble with her fanciest hairband and boarded the school bus, her orange coach not quite Cinderella’s style. After school she had gymnastics and it was…

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She Said, She Said

Recently a mother texted me that her first grader came home from school upset that my young daughter was making fun of her on the school bus.  And would I please talk with my little one?  The mom wasn’t accusatory but simply wanted the situation settled, her daughter was hurt.  Reflexively, I assumed my daughter was in the wrong, because my own mother did just that when it came to similar circumstances involving me, or because I knew the family well enough to know the mom wouldn’t exaggerate about something like this.  I didn’t go directly to my daughter to scold her; I…

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