At 03:23 PM 2/21/03 -0400, you wrote:
>*nod*
>Kids are tough to deal with.

So are parents or spouses sometimes :-)

>
>I suppose it would be especially hard when your kid doesn't want to talk
>to you, or treats you as though you're a moron/against them...when
>you're still doing your utmost to support him/her.

Yes, but I think it would be harder if I came down to that level
and had to look in the mirror.

>
>Its rough....and perhaps kids that KNOW they have a good father/mother
>that won't abaondon them might start taking that fact for granted.

Maybe so, but I can't abandon him.

>
>As we say in Trinidad,
>"Monkey Know What Tree To Climb..."

And this monkey is driving me ape.
:-)

Thanks, Gel.
-Ben

>
>-Gel
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
>
>I don't know, how old is he? That just sounds F'd up.  Maybe let him
>fall on his face and then he can see how good for him you really were.
>
>While we haven't met, I do feel as though we all get to know each other
>reasonably well in here.  You seem like a really great guy.  Scares the
>hell out of me.  My three year old already tells me he hates me when I
>discipline him.
>
>Tim
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ben Braver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
>
>At 01:58 PM 2/21/03 -0500, you wrote:
>>That's what I meant :)
>>
>>That for all the trials and tribulations my father and I endured 
>>earlier in life, we are now great friends.
>
>That's what I thought was happening, until last summer.
>We were going to lunch & movies, watching tv, bs-ing.
>Then on vacation in Kaua'i he told me he'd hated me since he was 9.
>
>-Ben
>
>
>
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