Friday, December 18, 2009

Arguments Still Surprise Me: Haiku Friday

Haiku Friday

Cloud of angry words
dissipates slowly with time
the storm is over...

the hist'ry to blame
still lurks on the horizon
love's winds can't blow it

far enough away
to keep squalls from popping up
out of sunny skies ...

I'm never prepared,
need a better predictor --
Accu-Argument?

I'm just not always good at knowing what I do that will make Husband upset. Or when his reaction to something DB does (or, in this case, doesn't do, as in listen to us) will escalate to full-blown yelling. (I guess that just makes me human. But Husband is a systematizer by nature, finding ways to do things better, learning from every mistake ... so he expects me to improve the process every time!!)

All the work DB's teachers do to teach him voice levels, to modulate himself when he's angry, and what does he live with: a "level 5" voice.

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2 comments:

storyteller said...

Powerful haiku ... family dynamics can be challenging to figure out ... especially around the holidays.
Hugs and blessings,

Cathy said...

that so sucks! i'm the yeller in the family, and i cringe when i do now becuase it is hard on the kids.