"Choose Your Battles"

(An Excerpt Taken from 'My Very Own Tool Supply' a book by Sylvia A. Miller)

"And So I Cry!"

The Whining Battle

Both of my sons are over 5' tall and weigh over 130 pounds!  They look and dress like everyone else, and most of the time they act like everyone else.  But there was a time, not too long ago, when these enormous young men would cry and scream for what seemed like no apparent reason, and it was as though their main intent for that moment was to embarrass their mother or their older sister by doing it non-stop in front of the largest audience they could find.  I'm not certain which affected me the most: when they performed this incredible feat in public before the "expert critics" who felt the need to share their observations about a situation they know nothing about; or when I was at home rushing to get a million things done (mostly in the hopes of settling them down) while functioning on a mere 2 hours of sleep, and they just wouldn't stop whining no matter how much I asked them why!  For sanity and security sake, this battle had to be won.

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