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Influence

A few weeks ago I got assigned a new client. A girl around 6 years of age. Oh is she precious. But from day one she bombarded me with statements of “You’re the worst” “I hate you” and the like. Personally, I thought the statements may have been learned from classmates or television series. But today I found the source. Each time I would go to her home only the caregiver would be present which in some households is the norm, I’ve went weeks with providing services for kids before I’ve met parents. Surprisingly the mother was present when I arrived at the home of the child. The child asked to go outside and play, which the mother agreed too. The mother decide that she too wanted to come outside and watch the session, which I appreciated, I think its good for parents to see my techniques so they can implement them when I am not around. Anyways, while we were outside another mother and her children came outside to play. They were directly across the street from the home of my client. After my client’s mother noticed the children she told me “I don’t want my daughter playing with those kids, if they come over here we will go in the house” I told mom I was fine with that. The mother across the street with her children decided to go for a run. She ran around her side of the block over to the side we were on, as soon as she got about 30 feet from being directly in front of the clients home the mother stood of the sidewalk and began to yell “STAY OFF MY PROPERTY” the other mother was very confused and asked “What? What did we do?” “ITS MY PROPERTY, I DON’T WANT YOU ON IT! YOUR’RE GOING TO MAKE MY KIDS SICK!”  the other mother continued to run laps with her children. Each time she would pass, my clients mother would yell things such as “THEY’RE DIRTY” “NASTY!” “SICK!” the other mother just ignored her and continued to run laps. About her third lap around, my clients mother worked up a spit from the pit of her soul and it barley missed the other mother. I was so disgusted! But this showed me my child's influence. Know that everything you do, everything you say, everything you watch is being internalized by the little eyes and ears around you and will be mimicked. And honestly you can’t get mad at your child for it! THUS BE A GOOD EXAMPLE!