The Conscious Parent

and study for a whole hour but instead commend them each time they study for ten minutes. If your chi ...

Many parents get into daily battles with their children over food, which clothes to wear, or how homewo ...

they feel secure, familiar with the rules, and confident that new ones aren’t going to be imposed every ...

respect it, they grow up thinking it’s okay to walk all over another human being. The consequence is ...

passions, and choose their own friends. If we have done a decent job of teaching them how to respect t ...

In the case of a toddler, you might gently hold them and be very present with them until they cal ...

explain, “No matter how you feel, you simply can’t act out in this way. Let’s find another way to communicate ...

children’s belief that something is wrong with their body, instead of tapping into the underlying emotional ...

In such a situation, it’s essential you are ready to admit your errant ways. You can tell your childr ...

good person. Please help me express my goodness. I don’t want to be wild or defiant. This doesn’t f ...

for their age, while others mature more slowly. So caught up do we get in sticking to the traditional notio ...

immaturity, or with full understanding and hence in outright defiance? Is my child able to master the ta ...

give them a stern look and make it very clear that this isn’t acceptable behavior. When they ...

does, the mother praises her for her ability to respect the need to keep the house tidy so that everyone ...

The daughter, who is six years old, draws a pretty picture and runs to show it to her mother. Her mother i ...

they could apologize to him for their negligence and try to change their working hours, or arrange for someone el ...

difficult to put to bed. Nighttime involved a great deal of stress with lots of crying and screaming. ...

WHY DELIGHTFUL CHILDREN TURN INTO DEFIANT TEENS Though we have already addressed defiance in our teens ...

Do I need to reexamine my expectations and recalibrate my understanding of what my child’s emotional capac ...

Is it possible I don’t know how to respond to my child’s temperamental nature, and that this engenders ...