Re: Driving in the car with Grandma

On Jul 23, 11:05=EF=BF=BDpm, "Michelle J. Haines" <mhai...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Chris wrote:
>
> > She's no fool - water in your nose burns! It must have been a good
> > enough dose too. Can't blame her one bit. She'll get back on that
> > horse eventually.
>
> > I don't really consider things that take convincing/cajoling out of
> > fear the child has developed as being necessarily oppostionally
> > defiant though or with trying to get them to eat their vegetables that
> > they obviously dislike. Now, if she were breaking rules such as
> > throwing rings in the pool after being told it was not allowed by an
> > authority figure, other than mom and dad, and a complete stranger, I
> > might actually get worried about oppositional defiant disorder if
> > other factors also played a role.
>
> it was AN example, no the ONLY one. =EF=BF=BDThe two weeks before, when
s=
he had
> not a single problem with the water and loved ever minute of it, she
> refused to jump into the pool simply because she wanted to jump in a
> different part of the pool and the teacher said no. =EF=BF=BDShe's also
t=
aken
> candy canes off the christmas tree to eat them at her grandparents'
house=
..
>
> She's very good natured and not malicious, but very stubborn.
=EF=BF=BDGa=
reth's
> the one who borders oppositional defiant, and he doesn't do it outside
> of the home (yet).
>
> Michelle
> Flutist

LOL. Which part of the pool?  I watched my son in a swimming class
place his fears aside and jump feet first into 10-feet of water his
very first day, and all because of peer pressure and cajoling from a
teacher. I knew that had to be the hardest thing for him. They
wouldn't let him wear his goggles, which were his under-water safety
net - he hated it in his eyes. But he did it. I would not have blamed
him if he wouldn't have wanted to and would have refused.