Well, I should have figured this strategy out a long time ago. Kids these days, at least mine, do not care to hear, or about the "because I am your Mom" reason on why they need to do something or why they need to listen to me, so I had to get more creative. It took me several years to come up with one of the basics.....The 10 Commandments! We are Catholic, our kids have attended Catholic school, and we go to church, so this was a good, easy, simple string to pull on, I thought.
I sat my son down, when he was 18, during a difficult time between the two of us and had a discussion. I asked him to recite the 10 Commandments, obviously waiting for him to get to the Commandment of 'Honor Thy Father and Mother'. He started with, as his First Commandment, one that shocked me in many ways...The Right to Bear Arms!! Are you freaking kidding me kid? We both had a big laugh. This was just after the Covid pandemic, so I am going to just chalk it up to that!
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