This article offers some tips that can make a dramatic difference in increasing cooperation and decreasing power struggles in...
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Setting limits can bring healing tears and tantrums
Genevieve Simperingham, , Healthy Boundaries, chores, crying, grumpy child, healing, power struggles, requests, tantrums, 5Setting limits can bring healing tears and tantrums It’s important to express the limits that prevent aggressive or destructive...
Tread gently when correcting your child
Genevieve Simperingham, , Respectful Communication, boundaries, chores, discipline, i statements, limits, parental frustration, requests, 6Parents work hard to help their child become aware of what’s socially appropriate and inappropriate, what they’re allowed to...
Family Meetings
Genevieve Simperingham, , PP Strategies & Tools, chores, communication, family meetings, problem solving, requests, 0My kids so often come out with little gems that I think I should record but rarely do. But...
When teenagers refuse to do chores
Genevieve Simperingham, , PP Strategies & Tools, chores, not listening, power struggles, problem solving, requests, teenagers, teens, 21A mother asks: “My fourteen year old son is refusing to do chores. For 14 years, there were no...
Grumpy children need our sweetness and nothing else will do
Genevieve Simperingham, , PP Strategies & Tools, allowing feelings, chores, conflict with your child, not listening, parental anger, parental frustration, power struggles, requests, 14When children are upset and unsettled, they need empathy and connection before solutions or suggestions. They need to get...