Comments on: A Scam is Born

By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:40:00 +0000

Cat, I just loved reading this comment. I remind myself all day long that I am a professional. I really think it helps refocus me.

When I walk into chaos and madness with jelly dripping from the side, I straighten my apron, resist the urge to panic and work it like the professional I am.

But to be honest, I sometimes get real frazzled and scream in my head. It doesn't work nearly as well as the professional mantra.

By: Cat

Cat — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:24:00 +0000

oh, the character lessons…so much more creativity needed than just “building” a follower who knows how to look around to see who’s watching before taking action. I think efficiency is lessons is great. calling a scam a scam seems perfectly logical to me and perhaps not spending 20 mins. to be sure she’s left with the warm fuzzies can help with the negative connotation about how it feels to be a scammer..???
anyway, I’ll day, as I’ve been taking my kid to appts., filling out forms, folding laundry, dealing with the insurance co. in between sanitizing the toilet I kept trying to remember your tag line…I knew it ended with, “I’m a professional” and I was trying to picture how Amy, (a Professional Homemaker) would handle a busy, jumbled day like mine. it was obvious I was missing the first part because I was in a mild panic all day…I’ll have to get better at remembering the whole things. perhaps I can adopt it as my new, positive focus quote and eventually learn to live it )

By: Amy

Amy — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:17:00 +0000

Thank you all for your thoughts. Thank you Kim for the word “grifter”. It was on the tip of my tongue.

By: Natalie Witcher

Natalie Witcher — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:49:00 +0000

Well, at least she got honest the next day. She heard you loud and clear! Tell it like it is sister.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:07:00 +0000

I think you handled it fine. The way I phrase honesty with my kids is to tell them “I need you to always always tell me exactly what happened. And I will always always believe you.”

By: Kim Heinecke

Kim Heinecke — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:02:00 +0000

I am WAY okay with taking the “shorter way out” sometimes. I just tuck it in the back of my brain and be sure to revisit it soon. She’ll probably be more understanding of the whole “liar liar pants on fire” discussion when you tie it back to her days as a grifter.

By: Christy

Christy — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:26:00 +0000

You have to give her props for being honest with you about the $$ the second time around. And I think that it was a character lesson that you taught her. She now knows she doesn’t want to be a scammer in life, that is an important life lesson for any child to learn!

By: Amy

Amy — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:14:00 +0000

Thanks for visiting my little slice of the web, Robin! I do bet she remembers scam.

“Vocabulary lesson”. Way to spin, Deleise. Thank you for that.

By: deleise

deleise — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:36:00 +0000

Hey, don’t sell yourself short. The lesson was a vocabulary lesson and you pulled it off beautifully. You can do a character lesson another day.

By: Robin Meadows

Robin Meadows — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:53:00 +0000

haha..this is great! (you get to paint your toenails??)

I’m bettin’ she remembers “scam”!