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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m so so sorry op, I would be FURIOUS about her behavior. And I would be sad.

Do what you have to to get through this trip and at home you figure out how to get her to be a more grateful human being. she gets a job, she helps the homeless, whatever.

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It’s always fascinating that this forum thinks “helping the homeless” is just this easy kind of task that’s designed to make the brats of dc/va/md more grateful (when really it involves the work of very trained mental health and social work professionals) or that homeless people want your yucky kid around them. [/quote]

I am the one who suggested this. I didn’t mean she should provide direct mental health support for homeless people, you do know there’s a wide range of support opportunities available, right?. Making sandwiches or gathering period supplies for women and teen girls, coordinating a food drive, collecting socks and hygiene supplies for men. These are legitimate needs for the unhoused populations and it can’t hurt a spoiled brat who throws a toddler like tantrum about going to Italy to acknowledge through this work that there are people much MUCH less fortunate than she is. Our family does community service on the regular, not because it’s to teach our kids lesson, but because we can fill that need, and if it has helped my kids develop more empathy along the way than I’m happy that’s a side effect of community service.
Isn’t it our job to raise empathetic humans that are contributing members of our society?[/quote]

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