You’ve Been Trying the Wrong Way To Correct Your Child’s Misbehaviors

Kids are the product of how we parent.

Adelina Vasile
A Parent Is Born

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Do you ever feel you’ve tried everything with your child but nothing works? Are you exasperated by misbehaviors that keep manifesting? Concerned that misbehavior will become a permanent trait of theirs?

You must have tried everything that doesn’t work.

One thing, in particular, works though. And if you’re not doing it now, you’re making a big, common mistake.

Don’t you want to learn what that is?

Why Children Act Out and Our Reactions Don’t Help

Children act out when there’s a storm inside of them.

When they struggle with something, with anything, they have an instinctual reaction.

If that reaction got them what they wanted — the toy, the parent’s attention, etc. — they’ll keep using it.

Same if they don’t know or can’t think of another way to react.

Parents know them enough to tell when something will make them blow out.

Even those who’ve never read a parenting book in their lives can say “oh, he’s acting out cause he’s tired” or “she needs a snack or she’ll turn into a dragon

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Adelina Vasile
A Parent Is Born

Mother, educator, journalist, copywriter. I write about the things I need to learn myself.