[blparent] The maid wants to go on strike!

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

Exactly.  We want our kids to grow up and become responsible, productive 
members of society, and we aren't going to make that happen by doing 
everything for them and teaching them that it's okay for them not to 
contribute to their world.  We made a few baby steps this morning because I 
had my hands full, and my daughter's frozen waffles popped up from the 
toaster.  I asked my stepson to butter them and give them to her since she 
had to hurry and finish them up so she wouldn't be late for preschool.  He 
started to go into that poor long-suffering sigh routine I hate so much, and 
I said to him, "Think about it.  Is that really too much to ask?"  He said 
no, he guessed not, and when I got finished with what I was doing, I found 
that he'd made my morning cup of coffee for me.  I praised him to the skies, 
although it was one of the more horrible cups of coffee I can remember 
having because the coffee was strong enough to climb out of the cup all on 
its own and shake hands with me.

Jo Elizabeth

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a 
song."  Maya Angelou

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From: "Sheila Leigland" <sleigland at bresnan.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 12:23 PM
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Subject: Re: [blparent] The maid wants to go on strike!

> Jo elizabeth you have every right to expect cooperation from the members 
> of your household. It is part of being a family. I was afraid that I was 
> expecting to much of our son if I asked for any help and my sister helped 
> me to see that if I didn't expect participation that I wasn't treating 
> mark as a member of a family.
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