A few months ago, I came across this article in the NYT. The general premise is that the author took a climbing class with IME at Cathedral Ledge with his children, who consequently behaved better. The first paragraph of the article, though, is 180 degrees opposite from how things work in our family:
For three days last month I had a break from family squabbles and smart-alecky retorts. My adolescent children didn’t tell me to “wait a minute” when I needed something done. Phones were shut off, for the most part, and neither a DVD player nor a computer was turned on.
We do nothing but squabble, smart-aleck, and tell each other “hold on, wait a minute,” usually while we’re on the phone. Oh well.
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