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Quote From: kbscrapper

This gets my BP up every time!! I really think that we give our kids too much now a days. I think part of it is because we have more then our parents did but when do you draw the line? I have a SD who is 8 and she gets whatever she wants from her mom. Granted Mom has the money to give it to her but DH and I don't. We barely get by. So how do you find the middle ground?? Last Christmas she complained that her little sister got more then she did from us. Yeah she may have but she she does not get 3 christmases like her big sister does, AND she plays with her toys. Everything I buy for her seems to just sit on a shelf. I actually gave some of her unopened toys away last year.  

She didn't even care!!  

  

Quote From: niagara

You've been going to the wrong shoe shine.  But if you've never been, and your footwear is a mess, you're making a poor first impression because research says it is one of the first things people observe.  If nothing else, you come away with a new experience to talk about, and with good looking footwear to improve your chances of making a great first impression in the workplace or the social arena.  Try saying to another customer that it is your first time --- this should open up conversation.   Then ask if this a ritual, and where he works, etc.  But if his head is in the paper, read the signs. 

  

Above all, stop the negativity, and stop looking for fault, otherwise you may never experience positive change. 

  

  

  

Quote From: carynbr

That wife on the show today that complained that her hubby was too hard on the kids did not really say what SHE would do to assist in the discipliine of the children. From the clips, all she did was attack HIM. Some of the things he did and said were certainly not ideal but I am sure some of that comes out of sheer frustration. Where was she in all this? You can hear him asking for her assistance when things were getting hairy with the kids.

Quote From: vikes_fan

 I love what Dr. Phil is doing and his candid way of telling it like it is.  I guess we all watch to see if maybe someone out there has it worse than we do. When I watched the family chaos show, my first impression was to say and I quote a brilliant man " Are you kidding me".   I have to give the husband credit  for  aknowledging a problem and  wanting to change it.  I feel like the wife has such a cavalier attitude, she is definetly spoiled by what money can buy, and there are so many of us out there who had to struggle for every thing we had or have, I myself was a  divorced mother of two young daughters who raised my children on my own , but I never lost sight of what was important , spending time with your family , teaching them to be honest, respectful and just all around good kids, don't get me wrong, they werent' always perfect, but  I taught them the values and morals, that were passed on to me.  Interventions are hard especially when people don't like change. She needs to get out of the house and not just for shopping, do some volunteer work in a hospital, or  women's shelter, it might make you feel good about something. hopefully with the right counseling you and your husband and kids  can become a family unit  again, with love and  respect for one another, but  have the right attitude.

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