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January 27, 2010 2 Comments

The Lecture: Healthy or Harsh?

Three of my kids take piano lessons from the same teacher, so they take turns going first. They determined the order themselves several months ago. I thought it was all settled. It shouldn’t be difficult to maintain who goes first, second and third, right?At the start of a recent lesson, they argued.“You go first.”“I went first last week.”“No, you didn’t!”“Yes, I did!”The conflict escalated and intensified with much weeping and gnashing of teeth. It got so bad, the teacher had to call me in—I couldn’t believe I was refereeing a shouting match over who goes first for piano lessons! I resolved to end things abruptly by assigning an order.“Okay,” I began, pointing to them one-at-a-time. “You go. Then you. Then you. That’s it. No questions asked.” I started to go, then stopped and grumbled, “We’ll talk about this later.”I climbed into the car gnashing my own teeth…(Please visit HighCallingBlogs to read whether The Lecture that I launched delivered healthy correction or harsh criticism…)

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“Hammers on Black.” Just Say the Word. 7 January 2010. Web. 27 Jan. 2010. <http://justsaytheword.wordpress.com/2010/01/07/1929/>.

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Filed Under: change, children, family, high calling blogs, home, lifelong learning, motherhood, parenting, self-discovery Tagged With: child behavior, conflict management, conflict resolution, HCB, HighCallingBlogs

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  1. nancy says

    January 27, 2010 at 12:33 pm

    good post, ann.

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  2. annkroeker says

    January 27, 2010 at 3:51 pm

    nancy: I LOVE the artwork to go with it over at HCB and hope you don’t mind my highlighting and crediting you here, as well. People should get to know our nancy!

    Reply

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