Originally Posted by hwichlaz:
Maybe it's that I've NEVER heard it without negative tone or emotion behind it. It's always been used as a weapon to hurt feelings...usually to someone that IS their friend when the tables are turned.
Absolutely understand that.
When my son was small he lacked tact in speaking and as he aged, said things in a very matter-of-fact way and through that experience I learned alot.... and had the opportunity to "hear" it in a different light.
Without that experience I would probably be in the
"we are all friends" camp.
My DS was a very "difficult" child but in hindsight he taught me more than any other child has thus far and all through what I viewed then as defiant, difficult and/or exhausting behaviors.
