well meaning advice, was Re: Flu vaccine for pregnant woman

November 4, 2008

quick thought - just ran into this one post, haven't browsed thread

quite yet....anyway, chuckling..big sigh - I have heard this advice

many times - well, just let aunt so & so or whoever watch em for a day,

then they will " get it. " The problem I had (have) with this, is my

kids were TOUGH, and I knew how " to deal, " without totally snapping

( " they just need discipline " was another good un..not)...I was never

quite willing to see what other people's limits might be, without my

own self in between them & my kids, yk? Well-meaning, but not

necessarily a good idea...over time, the need to have " other " people

understand how very hard my kids were, got better. At this point (in

my " older " years, lol), I really could not care less that someone else

doesn't " get it. " I do, however, shield my younger kids from

well-meaning, but potentially (emotionally) harmful adults...chuckling

again - with lots of spiels over the years. " this is the way WE do it,

but you do not get to offend the natives " is a familiar one...(I)

You do what works & learn to listen for the good parts in well-meaning

advice, but to mostly ignore the bulk of it..wishing all the best

answers, elizabeth

ps...I have come to dread flu season - we don't get " the flu " around

here until the people around us get their flu shots. The one that

" takes ya down. " - this has become very apparent over the past 3

yrs...big sigh, super aarrgghh.

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