Let's think about our own lives, and we'll take it one step further, let's think about it in terms of dealing with our own stress and the baggage of our own lives. The Blame Game . He changed directions on school closing. If you read the Toronto Star, 'Harris Blinked'. Either way there was a subplot which revealed that in announcing the changes he took yet another hard swipe at the Toronto District School Board Harris, like his contemporaries, indeed like the entire boomer generation, is big into the blame game.
Blame invades our daily family experiences.
Blame flares in the most unexpected of places and at the most inopportune of times. We have expectation of each other. If these expectations are not met we become critical and point the finger of blame. Some people who are going through a difficult time will take any little phrase that we might say and turn it into a federal case, attacking us for saying such an insensitive thing. The blame game comes up when we have been together for a while and we have lapsed into taking one another for granted.