[Sca-cooks] Re: Arghhhh feast Service

[Seton1355 at aol.com]

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Oh 'Lainie,
What a good way to discribe how to behave.
I am going to save this paragraph and print it out and reread it when I am
tempted to be short and rude with a person.
Thanks!
Phillipa

> I had to pass on something similar to my son just the other day, and it
> is one I tried to explain to a friend years ago after I was gravely hurt
> by a person I loved, when my friend questioned my insistence on treating
> that person with the greatest courtesy- that how I treat that person is
> not dependent on their honor, but on _mine_. And frankly, the less they
> would seem to deserve it, the more I need to extend myself. As I told my
> son, how his little sister is behaving doesn't matter- he is in charge
> of his own behavior, and will be judged accordingly when the Mom comes
> to investigate the yelling!
>