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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would lose my mind over this. But the truth is, I am generally a very direct person. So, I would probably have said “please get her dressed, fed and teeth brushed while I shower.” Because that is just how I operate.

But my husband does just fine getting kids ready without me explaining how it works. What happens if you go out of town? [/quote]

Let me add if this did happen, the conversation would probably be something like “dude, you knew we were running late and you did nothing to get her ready. I am not your magic fairy. I need you to do stuff you know needs to be done. You manage to be a competent 50 year old human. Do you really expect me to believe you don’t know when a kid needs to get ready in the morning?” Depending on his reaction, this could go in a lot of directions.[/quote]

I sort of yelled at him something like how do you not even care about anything and just assume I will do EVERYTHING!!! Which was not helpful I know. But I guess starting with what on earth was going through your mind that you just disappeared without checking in that our child was ready would be a good start. [/quote]

To play devil's advocate, it sounds like your child is old enough to be able to get herself ready (since she did), so rather than wondering why he didn't check on whether she was getting herself ready (which she did), maybe consider that what was going through his mind is that didn't know she wasn't going to get ready (she you didn't tell him that, all you said is that she had an attitude and you needed to shower). I find that you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar (although I've always thought this saying is weird because who wants flies?!?) so starting the conversation off by yelling at him might not be the best idea...[/quote]

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