Re: Driving in the car with Grandma

Chris wrote:
> 
> 
> She's no fool - water in your nose burns! It must have been a good
> enough dose too. Can't blame her one bit. She'll get back on that
> horse eventually.
> 
> I don't really consider things that take convincing/cajoling out of
> fear the child has developed as being necessarily oppostionally
> defiant though or with trying to get them to eat their vegetables that
> they obviously dislike. Now, if she were breaking rules such as
> throwing rings in the pool after being told it was not allowed by an
> authority figure, other than mom and dad, and a complete stranger, I
> might actually get worried about oppositional defiant disorder if
> other factors also played a role.

it was AN example, no the ONLY one.  The two weeks before, when she had 
not a single problem with the water and loved ever minute of it, she 
refused to jump into the pool simply because she wanted to jump in a 
different part of the pool and the teacher said no.  She's also taken 
candy canes off the christmas tree to eat them at her grandparents' house.

She's very good natured and not malicious, but very stubborn.  Gareth's 
the one who borders oppositional defiant, and he doesn't do it outside 
of the home (yet).

Michelle
Flutist