Brilliant!  
Good horse sense (or should I say bird talk) is louder than all the
psych-circle talk in the world.
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> From: Ode Coyote <[email protected]>
> Reply-To: [email protected]
> Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 08:20:52 -0400
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: CS>Re: silver-digest: Uncontrolable granddaughter
> Resent-From: [email protected]
> Resent-Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 06:49:16 -0700
> 
> When the baby bird becomes too demanding, loudly squalking that they know
> everything and wants to grab all the worms...Momma bird gives baby bird a
> little nudge.
> Baby bird discovers what it is to fly or die.
> 16 year olds can legally emancipate themselves, or a parent can
> 'emancipate' them.
> Squalking is a declaration of independence.
> Honor it or suffer.  Your choice.
> 
> "Controlling" others is a study in frustration.
> Controlling you is your only real choice. If that requires excluding
> another from your peaceful environment to maintain it..as demanded..so be it.
> [You can always sent em a peanut butter sandwich/tattered blanket/tent just
> before they starve or freeze. Providing steak is counterproductive]
> 
> Teanagers should run the world while they still know everything.
> Old people forget in the face of reality.
> 
> If someone insists that they're right..they are.  Finding out 'how' right
> is 'their' job and they'll have to do it...you can't.  Your job is done.
> 
> ...so, you want an SUV?    OK cool..go buy one.  End of story...go play
> 'your' harp in the yard and see how well the rain keeps it in tune.
> No problem.
> PS  Give back that old rusty trusty Toyota...I'll drive it.
> 
> ..anyone who fucks with my head at the mall gets to walk home. [They might
> find the locks changed and a sleeping bag on the door step with a 'take a
> hike' note pinned to it.]
> Go find another airstrip baby, you ain't flying that crap through MY head
> space. [Where "I" am the traffic controller.]
> 
> I can always love ya from a distance..and eventually will anyhow 'if and
> when' you grow up. ['They' determine how far away that is and when.]
> 
> Ya can't buy and sell love, especially with abuse as the currency.  If you
> accept an exchange like that..YOU'RE the turkey on a learning curve. [Gee
> whiz! Step aside and let that crosswind blow by!]
> 
> Nothing that anyone 'says' can MAKE you feel ANYTHING..unless you volunteer
> victimhood.
> Who's wearing a sign that says, "Kick me and MAKE me cry"?
> 
> Well, kick ME and you'll see just how fast I'm not at the end of your foot.
> [Was that a sonic boom?]
> You'll look pretty stupid standing there with one foot in the air, I'll
> betcha. [and nary an SUV to stand on]
> Now you wanna hate me?  OK, your choice. [Not something I can
> control...that's YOUR headspace.]
> Your game, your rules...I ain't playin.
> Go have the fun that you defined for yourself.
> 
> Ode
> 
> At 12:57 PM 5/7/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> I have been on this list forever and make colloidal silver and this list has
>> so many wise people on it that was wondering what list that I could go to
>> that would help us know what to do with my granddaughter who will be 16
>> soon. It is not just being a  teenager since she has always had a bad
>> character. She makes my daughter miserable and she told her that she didn't
>> love her or her father any more and that all she wants from them is
>> financial support. They just bought another house in a upscale neighborhood,
>> she said she was ashamed to have friends over to her other house. She harped
>> and harped on this and now it is a suv, her other friends that have turned
>> 16 have a used SUV. It's like she gets in my daughter's ear and repeats the
>> same thing over and over. She is beautiful and is good in sports and makes
>> good grades. My daughter teaches at the high school that she goes to.
>> Last night she called my daughter at 10 PM and wanted her to come and get
>> her at her friends house and she didn't do this and this morning when she
>> picked her up she started in on the suv again. They had gone to a store and
>> granddaughter called her a "dumb but) loud enough for people to hear. This
>> is so severe that my daughter called me this morning crying and said that
>> she made her so miserable that she wishes she had never been born. Her
>> father is a military man and tends to ground her for long periods which
>> punishes my daughter also to have her around all the time. He wanted to
>> ground her last week and I got into it and told my daughter that if you are
>> too strict sometimes it backfires and she begged him not to ground her, I
>> probably should not have gotten into it. In the halls at the school she told
>> my daughter that she wasn't going to swim practice to be a life guard and
>> she told her she wasn't going and she told her she had to and granddaughter
>> looked at her real mean and said Make Me. Well she did go because her father
>> picked her up and took her. She doesn't mess with him and says she hates
>> him. Now this is a normal family in ever other way she has two younger
>> sisters and my daughter says if it wasn't for them she would think she was a
>> total failure. Talking to a Psychologist would not be the thing because she
>> knows it all and would not talk to him, I think she needs medication.  HELP
>> Sorry for this long post
>> 
>> Mary H.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <[email protected]>
>> To: <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 5:51 AM
>> Subject: silver-digest Digest V2005 #310
>> 
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