Is My Daughter Testing Her Limits? How to Deal with Challenging Behavior
- Discover if your daughter is testing her limits and learn how to handle challenging behavior.
- Susie, a 12-year-old girl, is pushing boundaries with her sassiness, dominating conversations, and disregarding rules.
- Her father remains silent and avoids dealing with her behavior, making himself scarce.
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Susie is almost 12 and seems to be testing the limits in ways I would never have tolerated. She sasses her mother and dominates the conversation at the dinner table. When told to clear away her dirty dishes, she instead goes to the cupboard for a snack. Her discarded clothes are in every room of the house. When told to get ready for school, she turns on the TV. The bathroom floor is cluttered with whatever she tossed there. She even "forgets" to flush the toilet! My daughter, with incredible patience, sees this behavior as typical for her age. I see Susie as a brat testing her power. Her father says little and makes himself scarce. makes himself scarceとはどのような意味でしょうか？よろしくお願いします
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困った子ですねぇ ・・ make oneself scarce は、たとえば下記URLの辞書によると to go away from a difficult situation in order to avoid trouble （巻き込まれるのを避けて身を隠す） とあります。 「その子の父親はといえば、我関せずという態度なのである」 といったふうな文ですね。 上に引いた定義の中にある go away は、必ずしも空間的な場所のことばかりではなく、その現場の状況の中に巻き込まれないような態度でいることも含んでいるように思います。
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＞makes himself scarceとはどのような意味でしょうか？ ⇒「（かかわるのを避けて）引っ込んでいる」。 （もちろん、父親としては内心「困った娘だ」と思っているに違いないですが。） ＊make oneself scarceを辞書で調べると、「（かかわりあいを恐れて）出ていく、いなくなる、出席しない、引っ込む」と出ています。
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