Posts Tagged ‘communication’

Most of us spend way too much time worrying what others are thinking about us. But we really have no idea what’s going on in anyone else’s head—as I discovered one Christmas.

Our family had gathered at my brother’s and I was refereeing an argument between my then seven-year-old nephew and his younger sister. When I told them they shouldn’t bicker, my nephew announced, “But you and Mimi fight all the time!”

Now “Mimi” is what the kids call my mother, and she and I are exceptionally close. The only time I could remember us getting in a spat in front of the children was when I’d joined them in a wild game of hide-n-seek at her house and we’d nearly pulled down her drapes.

“We do not fight all the time!” I said, but my nephew was adamant. “Okay, then what do we fight about?” Without hesitation, he answered: “Food!”

Food?

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