That's how I felt today when my daughter just wouldn't listen to me. She asked for my help and advice for a sewing project and she went ahead and did whatever she wanted to with it anyway, not heeding any of my advice (which she asked for by the way!)
Then, when it wasn't working out so well she came and showed me what was going wrong. That's when I asked her if she had tried it on before pinning it, and she proceeded to yell at me that I was just saying I could do it better than her, and I never help her, and so on. Maybe you've heard it before. So I just listened to her rant and she stomped away mad at me, not at the sewing project.
You see, somehow it was my fault she didn't listen to me, my fault her project didn't work out, and then my fault again that (I can't remember now). So, it makes sense she should be mad at me, right? Not mad at herself and not mad at the project.
Here's a good article about 5 Ways to Develop More Patience With Children.
I'm going to study it and hopefully find out some things I can do so that I will have loads more patience.
Do you think it will work?
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