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tla ([personal profile] tla) wrote in [personal profile] j4 2013-05-23 07:51 am (UTC)

Hahaha Sophie also says "carry you!" when she wants to be carried, and "tuck you in" when she wants to have the cover put over her in bed. And "Show me" when she wants to show me something.

She'll have big meltdowns, especially when she's tired, even though I tend to do the same about granting a request if it's feasible. She just doesn't so easily accept explanations (much to Daddy's chagrin, who is ever the optimist in trying to reason with her.) We are omnipotent after all so just DO IT.

Also, plenty of people are simply not interested in having things explained calmly and clearly and rationally. It's not how they work—much of the time the only thing that works is to socially engineer a situation where they find they're agreeing with you in opposition to someone/something else they've been led to be a little hostile to. And I don't think you can do that in a situation where the health visitor is the voice of Authority and *you* are the one who is supposed to be Learning.

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