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Coping With and Combating Blame

It doesn’t seem to matter if you have one child or seven when it comes to coping and combating a child’s tendency to blame. If a child isn’t blaming his or her woes and troubles on a sibling, it could just as easily be the dog, a neighbor or the weather. Some parents seem to have more patience with this than I do, but I have found that blame is a surefire way to NOT take responsibility for one’s own life and it is one of the human traits I have worked hard on with my own children. It seems … Continue reading →

Why Not Blame Mom?

There are plenty of things that I DO have control over in my little world, but, alas, far fewer things than my teenagers would actually like to think I have control over. When in doubt, blame mom! It’s all mom’s fault that the hot water heater has run out of hot water after two long teenage-showers, it’s mom’s fault that the store was out of someone’s favorite brand of cereal or type of bread, and it’s certainly mom’s fault that someone didn’t get up on time and missed the bus to school. Who else, really? Who else, but mom? My … Continue reading →

The Blame Game

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I didn’t create the situation. This is the argument many of us use when we are confronted with a difficult situation with our spouse or partner. We assign the blame of where the difficulty originated. In some cases, this may be a valid necessity to resolving the problem. In many other cases, it is just a way of escalating an argument. Let’s consider the following disagreement between a couple – the man kept a secret. His reasons for keeping the secret are numerous, but ultimately it boiled down to he didn’t want to argue with his wife. The secret involved … Continue reading →