My Question of the Day for 30 June 2010 – UPDATED
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My Question of the Day: Parents of a five-year-old are in a heated debate about how to handle an on-going situation with their daughter. Since birth, Dad has enjoyed sharing a bath with his baby girl. He liked the idea of being able to hold her and keep a watchful eye on her so that she didn’t slip in the water and drown. Mom was pleased to see Dad taking such an active role in the care of their daughter and sometimes all three would bathe together. It was fun family time.
About the age of three, Mom begin dropping the bug in Dad’s ear that he was going to have to stop bathing with their daughter next year because the little girl would be at the age where she would be curious about “boy parts” and “girl parts.” Dad scoffed and thought it was absurd to think he’d have to stop sharing this special bonding time in the bubbles with his daughter.
Age four came and went and still Dad and daughter were sharing a bath. Mom would hear them sharing their day and Dad would take this time to lovingly correct his daughter about different things that needed to be addressed. Still, Mom thinks it’s time for father and daughter to stop the shared baths.
What do you think?
My 2 Cents: I can appreciate that Dad wants to share some special time with his daughter, but it’s time to stop the co-bathing.
There are other ways to bond with your child(ren), and Dad needs to discover a new way to do so. His daughter is growing up and he’s messing with her age of innocence here.
He’s also messing with his own innocence. All he needs to happen is for his little girl to go to school and talk about how she shares a bath with her daddy and she’s seen his boy parts, etc.
Mom is going to have to be more proactive. Maybe she should bathe the little girl before Dad gets home, and eventually the daughter will get accustomed to bathing alone. Even if she puts up a fuss to begin with, if Mom sticks with it her daughter will eventually understand that this is the new system.
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My Question of the Day for 29 June 2010 – UPDATED
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My Question of the Day: Two coworkers, we’ll call them Andrea Vincent and Brian Paulson, are both up for the same promotion. So far, both employees have been performing at the same outstanding caliber of productivity. Their supervisor decides to have each of them do a 5-minute presentation on the company’s future success to determine who will get the promotion. They have two weeks to prepare.
Even though Andrea and Brian are neck and neck for the same promotion, Andrea is aware that Brian and her supervisor are friends from college, and they spend a lot of time together during off hours playing golf, hiking and attending sporting events. Although Andrea hasn’t witnessed her supervisor showing favoritism to Brian, she’s concerned nonetheless.
While the employees are preparing to give their presentations, Andrea receives a startling email that was sent to her by mistake. It just so happens that the president of the company is named Andrew Vincent (no relation), and the person who was trying to email him inadvertently sent the information to Andrea.
What’s startling about the email is that the information, if included in her presentation, will give Andrea the exact boost she needs to literally guarantee her the promotion over Brian Paulson.
What should she do?
My 2 Cents: The fruits of ill-gotten gains are usually never as sweet as we’d think they would be once we’ve bitten into them.
There’s no question in my mind that Andrea’s integrity is on the line with this one.
She should not use the information.
She should report the incident to her supervisor, so that he will know that she had the opportunity to win with an unfair advantage but she chose not to. That may win her favor when it comes to the promotion.
From the scenario, it sounds like her boss is fair-minded. If he weren’t, he’d just give the promotion to his college friend and that would be that.
Integrity is what we show, even when no one is watching. However, it’s been my experience that someone is always watching; always.
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