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PERSONALITIES

THERE ARE MANY PERSONALITIES:
SO DIFFERENT IN BIG FAMILIES:
  DEALING WITH SO MANY DIFFERENT PERSONALITIES IN A BIG FAMILY:
  AS A FATHER YOU HAVE TO BE MINDFUL, AND WISE AND USE PERFECT TIMING AND TACT WHEN YOU COMMUNICATE TO AVOID A MISUNDERSTANDING OR TRADEGY:
EVEN THOUGH IN A BIG FAMILY, ALL CAME FROM THE SAME LAST NAME:
COMMUNICATING WITH THEM ALL IS A DIFFERENT GAME AND IS NOT THE SAME:
  AS A FATHER THAT IS YOUR PRIDE AND JOY ALL THE KIDS YOU HAD:
  BUT WHEN THERE IS MISCOMMUNICATION OR MISUNDERSTANDINGS YOU FEEL SO DAD AND GET SAD:
AS A DAD WHEN THE KIDS ALL GET OLDER AND MATURE:
THEY ALL CHANGE, AND MISUNDERSTANDINGS AND DIFFERENCES OF ALL WITH HURT FEELINGS AS A DAD YOU ENDURE:
  YOU JUST WANT ALL OF YOUR FAMILY TO LOVINGLY STAND TOGETHER:
  NO MATTER WHAT NO MATTER WHERE FOR ALL TIME IN ANY WEATHER:
WHEN THERE IS A FALLING OUT AND HARD AND HURTFUL WORDS ARE EXCHANGED BETWEEN SISTERS AND BROTHER:
AS A DAD THAT HURTS YOU GREATER THAN ANY OTHER:
  AS A PARENT ALL YOU PRAY FOR IS PEACE AND FOR ALL TO BE FORGIVING AND GET ALONG:
  WHEN THERE IS NOT PEACE, AND WHEN THERE IS HARBORED FEELINGS OF ANGER HATE AND JUDGEMENTAL RESENTMENTS IT FEELS SO WRONG:
AS A FATHER OF A BIG FAMILY, ALL THE DIFFERENT PERSONALITIES OF THE KIDS CLASH AND THEY DONT ALWAYS GET ALONG:
DEEP HURT FEELINGS DEVELOP AND COMMUNICATION STOPS WHEN ONE FEELS WRONGED:
  SO AS A DAD, I ALWAYS AM TRYING TO KEEP PEACE:
  AND TO HOLD MY FAMILY TOGETHER THE BEST I CAN AT LEAST:
BE KIND CARING COMPASSIONATE LOVING COMPASSIONATE FORGIVING AND ABOVE ALL NICE:
BEFORE YOU SPEAK,BE MINDFUL AND THOUGHTFUL WHAT YOU SAY AND BE WISE THINK TWICE:


25  DECEMBER  2014:

 


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