Like walking talking mirrors

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5 responses to “Like walking talking mirrors”

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   Ailbhe

   9 May 2012

   “Today is a DAMMIT day.”
   “Oma gaud!”
   “We can order it on the internet.”

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      Jax

      9 May 2012

      Oh, that last one made me giggle 🙂

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   Hannah

   10 May 2012

   lol@ordering on the internet!
   I am all too aware of this because as we are only a household of 2, particularly when we were home educating, anything unpleasant coming out of C’s mouth was a direct relection of language I was using.
   You can change patterns by changing your own language though and in less time than you might think. Often I have introduced a more comical word to replace a less desirable one so that he still has the outlet but in a less threatening or nasty way and we can have a giggle about it.

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   Midlife Singlemum

   10 May 2012

   DD’s favourite saying is: Ne’er mind, we’ll put it in the wash. I wonder where she got that from.
   On a more serious note. I believe that if my brother had been born 30 years later he would have been diagnosed with some sort of learnong difficulty. As it was, in the 1960s, my mother thought the way to make him change his babyish behaviour was to ridicule him out of it. Obviously his two bright sisters followed her lead and, as it was probably nothing he could control, he spent his whole childhood getting little respect. It has affected his whole life, he has low self esteem and very little relationship with us, his sisters. After that experience, my sister has made it an absolute rule in her house that no one laughs at (in a nasty or teasing way) anyone else and that they all support each other’s endeavours. As a result her boys have a very good relationship with each other. And my mother is still completely oblivious about what she did.

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4. 

   Debbie

   10 May 2012

   If the psychologists are right it should take about three weeks 🙂 Let us know how you get on!

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