Bike Lane Magic

[RoadRaven]

Eden, excellent tack to take.

Thats how I always try and advise my students when they come to me with a "work issue" which is almost always about relationships.

I try and help them see it from the other person's perspective and how it affects the other person so the antagonist "buys in" to the proposed solution.

Def talk to her about how messages, when reinforced like this in children, can become a reality. Sure, she can grump to them about cyclists (and car-drivers) who break road rules and are discourteous, and explain how she hopes her children will be better road users, and explain exactly what was not ok about the road-use behaviour.

But openly supporting aggressive, dangerous thinking or behaviour is not ok. She has a responsibility as a parent to help her children into successful lives, and her current "parenting" does not fit this category!

That, coupled with Eden's suggestion of the potential trauma and legal issues her kids could face because of aggressive behaviour as adults... and by turn her as she supports them through grief, guilt and/or courts... well, that might just make her stop and think.

Does she realise these people are someone's parents, children, lovers, best friends? Does she not realise that their taxes fund roads too?

*Raven tsk-tsks and shakes her head in disbelief...*