JS>AF>         I hate it I hate it I hate it.  I'm not a confrontatory 
erson.
JS>AF> Conflict makes me sick to my stomic.  Alltogether, it just dosn't feal 
li
JS>AF> the way that things should go.
JS>AF>         Any ideas on how to avoid it?
JS>No.  My wife, who also avoids confrontation and is very good at getting
JS>things done without it, was unable to help in this case.  You don't have
JS>to do anything more than be stubborn: just keep repeating that it has to
JS>be done.
JS>If it's any consolation, my son outgrew this.  Now, he just lies and says
JS>his homework is done.
        A timely reply, as we had another case of the "I don't wanna" fits,
today.  So I timed her out in the bathroom (a realy boreing place to be 
tuck)
for an hour and a half.  She poked her head out, when she was ready to act
civilized.  Again, I didn't let her get away with not doing the thing she
was haveing a fit about, again I stressed afterwards how much easyer this 
would
have been if she just did the unwanted task first, as opposed to us fighting,
then her being timed out, then her still carying out the unwanted task.
        You would think that after a few of those, she would STOP this
behavior.  That she hasn't, indicates to me that she's getting something
out of it, but for the life of me, I can't figgure out what!
                                        Amber
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