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04/07/2013

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What fabulous parenting those kids get from you & Nick. What a great way to diffuse a potentially tense situation. What a grown-up response from Elias. Love it.

I love the strategy here and plan to try it myself....was it the humor or the confusion that made it work do you think? started my Monday off with a laugh so thank you for that!

Have had good luck with this strategy too if I could only remember in the heat of the moment.

As a language teacher, I will add that it is pretty cool that he created a verb, "me'ing" to address the situation!

Danielle, thank you and yes, I loved the term me-ing too:)

Fleming, i think it was both. I think we distracted him from whatever it was they were fighting over and with Elias it seems distraction is key for defusing situations either with humor or confusion or something of high interest, like the laundry machine beeping, seriously, he loves changing the laundry.

Thanks all!!!

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