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*** I do think it is fair for a kid to ask her mom to push
her a little. I sometimes want my husband or my friends to push me a bit,

too. Heck, I wouldn't like an aerobics instructor who stood up at the
front
and said, "Don't expect me to try to talk you into hard physical
exercise,
you just do what you feel like doing right now." There is a place in our
lives for other people who give us a little shove here and there.***

I suppose I was responding to the words "make her" which sounded to me
like "you get up and do it missy!"

I would help anyone who asked for a reminder, sure. I ask for those
too. But the words that were used... "make her"... didn't sound like the
nice reminders we all give each other, it sounded like something else.
I don't make anyone do anything around here, except maybe myself.<g> I
wouldn't make my husband take out the trash and I wouldn't make my son
practice piano.

Maybe I read the word differently. Maybe I'm having a flash back to my
childhood, after all these years of successfully blocking it out. <g>

Deb L

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On Sun, 25 Aug 2002 07:49:28 -0600 ddzimlew@... writes:
> I would help anyone who asked for a reminder, sure. I ask for those
> too. But the words that were used... "make her"... didn't sound like
the
> nice reminders we all give each other, it sounded like something
> else.

FWIW, I read it the way you did... "remind me" has a whole different feel
to it for me than "make me". "Remind me" can't become a power struggle,
you remind and that's it. "Make me" easily can...

Dar