paddyann Sun 08-Sep-19 22:10:17 I wish people behaved like that nowadays instead of feeling they have to control everything. I bit of give and take goes a very long way and, if we think of all parties in a family instead of just ourselves, surely it is worth a bit of effort?
It is so easy to label children as the 'difficult one' the 'polite one' etc and these labels tend to stick and imo sometimes influence the behaviour of the child. I have seen teachers do this and the labels stick throughout the school life. I knew a boy who was labelled 'good at maths' because his brother was but he actually was not. Another said that the boy was kept up too late at night because he dozed off, in fact he was extremely intelligent and was simply bored! He won scholarships at secondary schools and got a first from Oxford. Same happens in families