As I was once again figuratively banging my head against a wall after another bout of "I'll say no to whatever mom suggests" with my 8 year old (What am I going to do when she is a teenager!!), I thought in my head that if I took her to a specialist she will definitely get diagnosed with Oppositional Defiance Disorder. And then I was struck with another thought from all my readings of Linda Goodman in my teens, that my daughter is an Aries; of course, she is going to butt heads with me.
Has this new wave of labeling people with all kinds of disorders the new astrology of our times? There was a time when we tried to find the clue to a person's personality and ways to works with it with their sun sign. Now we try to do the same by getting them labeled with some kind of "disorder". Does it matter what label we give them - Aries or ODD? Isn't what is more important in the end is how we work with the person and live harmoniously with them?
Raising kids in a non-native environment while constantly worrying about striking the right balance.
