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Children will test parents' nerves on family vacations
QUESTION: Why is it that
children are often the most
obnoxious and irritating on
vacations and at other times
when parents specifically try
to please them?
On those special days, you’d
think the kids would say to
themselves, “Wow! Mom and
dad are doing something real
ly nice for us, taking us on this
great vacation. We’re going to
give them a break and be real
ly good kids today.’’ Isn’t that
reasonable?
DOBSON: Sure it’s reasonable,
but children just don’t think that
way. In fact, many boys and girls
misbehave even more at these
times. Why is this? One reason,
I think, is because children often
feel compelled to reexamine the
boundaries whenever they think
Christmas 'O7 - the memories that matter
Christmas never comes to me
without a childhood memory
that, in turn, throws its arms
around another memory and brings it
tagging along.
Neither is about
anything I ever
received - not the red
bike, the Barbie doll
house, my first little
sewing machine nor
even the little Kodak
Instamatic camera
that was a joyous
gift one year.
In fact, those pre-
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cious memories are not even about
receiving. They’re all about giving.
Daddy never made a lot of money
Bush? Any relation to Hugh Hefner?
There was a guy I
used to work with
who would do the
most odd thing when he met
people.
H e
would ask:
“What’s
your
name?”
(Not the
odd part)
For this
example,
we’ll say
the person
answered,
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“Donald Anderson.”
“Anderson, huh?,” my col
league would respond. “Any
relation to Loni Anderson?”
The person would look
perplexed, then say “no.”
“Well, I bet you wish you
were,” this guy would say
with a creepy, incestual
wink.
Didn’t matter who he was
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they may have
moved. In other
words, when
ever the normal
routine changes,
the tougher kids
often push the
limits to see if
the old rules
still apply.
QUESTION:
how can par-
ents preserve their own peace
of mind and maintain harmo
ny during car trips and family
holidays?
DOBSON: Sometimes it helps
to redefine the boundaries at the
beginning of your time together.
Let the children know exactly what
you’re doing and what’s expected
of them. If they still misbehave,
respond with good, loving disci-
but he believed firmly in giving even
when it meant his own wants had to
suffer. “You can either give it or God’ll
take it,” he often said. “One way or the
other, it’s goin’.”
Property taxes always came due at
Christmas, a tough reminder to ren
der unto Caesar that which is his. For
months, Daddy had worked, scraped
and saved for the money that was
due in the tax office in two days. He
heaved a sigh of relief, padded the wad
of bills in the pocket of his work pants
and silently thanked God for - again
- providing. He added a few sticks of
wood to the woodstove, stepped up on
the platform that looked out over the
rest of the shop and poured a cup cof
fee from the ever present pot. Taking
meeting, he would find a last
name of someone famous -
and often obscurely famous
- to ask if they were related
to.
“So, your last name is
Smith? Any relation to Rex
Smith, the star of ‘Street
Hawk?”’
“Your last name is
Stallone? Any relation to the
singer Frank Stallone?”
“Hmm, your last name is
Hatchett? Any relation to
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Focus on the Family
Molly per chance?”
It drove me bonkers.
Most folks have someone
in their genealogy that is
famous, or infamous. And
if we don’t have anyone of
note in our lineage, we make
it up.
For the record, my famous
relatives are former Vice
President John C. Calhoun
and former Supreme Court
Justice Benjamin Robbins
Curtis. You can tell I’m not
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pline right from the start.
No parent wants to be an ogre on
vacation, but it helps to show a lit
tle firmness at the outset that can
make the rest of the time together
fun for the entire family.
QUESTION: I am a grand
mother who is blessed to have
14 grandchildren. I often take
care of them and love just
having them over. However, I
would like to do more for them
than just baby-sit. What can I
do to really make an impact on
their lives?
DOBSON: Grandparents have
been given powerful influence
on their grandchildren if they
will take the time to invest in
their lives. There is so much to
be accomplished while they are
young. Another of the great con
tributions you can make is to pre
a sip, he settled down in his little,
black chair to join the conversation
among the endless stream of men who
stopped by his garage throughout the
day to smoke cigarettes, drink coffee
and shoot the bull.
The door of the shop opened and
the men looked up to see a stranger, a
bearded young man with blonde hair
that tumbled way past his shoulders.
A hippie, the conservatives all thought
to themselves. Shyly, he approached
the staring group and, voice shaking,
asked for my daddy.
“That’s me.” Daddy eyed him suspi
ciously.
“Someone told me you’d help
me.” The young man explained that
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fibbing because you prob
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I have claimed to be related
to former President Lyndon
Baines Johnson, coun
try singer Marty Robbins,
and actor Carl Weathers,
although I have no proof
of kin to any of the three.
Why do I mention
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from babyhood. She was already
old when I was bom and lived to
be nearly one-hundred years of
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about her early life on the frontier.
A favorite story involved mountain
lions that would prowl around her
log cabin at night and attack the
livestock. She could hear them
growling and moving past her win
dow as she lay in bed. Nanny’s
father would try to shoot the cats
or chase them away before they
killed a pig or a goat. I sat fasci
nated as this sweet lady described
a world that had long vanished by
the time I came on the scene. Her
accounts of plains life helped open
me to a love of history, a subject
which fascinates me to this day.
The stories of yout past, of
your childhood, of your courtship
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