Guest guest Posted October 13, 2002 Report Share Posted October 13, 2002 10/13/02 "Negotiating" We have the most fabulous thing going. For three dollars a month we're able to tune into just about any kind of music we like, twenty-four hours a day, without any commercial interruptions. It's hooked into our cable through a satellite dish and I was loving it today when I was singing some tunes and dancing while I was working around the house. That is, until Ananda came up to me stating, "Mommy, I am going to turn the music off so I can watch a video." "Honey," I said, "I'm really enjoying the music right now. Why don't you watch your video a little later?" "I want to watch it now," she declared. I stopped what I was doing, looked at her and said, "You watched some already today. Let's take turns." Angrily she told me that if I took a "yong time" then the next time she watched a video and I wanted to listen to music she was going to take a really "yong time" too. Oh Yeah? I thought, as a flash of heat rose up inside of me, along with You do that and... but thank goodness it stopped right there. I took a breath, not having a clue about what to do, when these words spontaneously came out: "Hey, that wasn't a very nice thing to say to me!" The conversation ended when she turned her back, and with a renewed sense of peace I returned to my puttering around. A moment or two later she bounded over to me full of enthusiasm with a fresh new idea about what she could do next. "That sounds great," I told the back of her head as she skampered off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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