The Key to Creating Your Peaceful Household and Avoiding Conflict

Bridget Hallisey
6 min readJun 6, 2020
Photo by Tatiana Syrikova

How many of you have had those moments where you find yourselves trying to hide from your kids? You know, the times where you find yourself locked in a closet to finally get those few minutes of peace you’ve longed for in the day. It’s hard not to do this on days where kids just want to create chaos.

Do you typically find yourself telling your kids what NOT to do instead of telling them what to do? How do you handle the situation when you’ve told them not to do something and they do it anyway JUST to piss you off!

The impulse for parents to punish their children can be hard to resist. Kids are frustrating, we all know it. Sometimes they make us so angry that we ourselves want to throw a temper tantrum. So how do we deal with these defying behaviors without lashing out at them, without getting so…

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