http://www.positiveparentingsolutions.com/parenting/shift-the-power-struggle-paradigm Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:42:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.positiveparentingsolutions.com/parenting/shift-the-power-struggle-paradigm/comment-page-1#comment-205 Parenting Questions Answered Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:24:00 +0000 http://www.positiveparentingsolutions.com/?p=5881#comment-205 [...] A: No, it really isn’t a misbehavior as much as the beginning of a power struggle. Eating is one of three areas in which toddlers have legitimate power and they use it to exert their hard-wired need for power and some “control” over their lives. The other two ways are sleeping and pottying. We can’t make our kids eat, sleep or potty – that is totally in their control and they know it. (See blog post on “Shift the Power Paradigm”) [...] [...] A: No, it really isn’t a misbehavior as much as the beginning of a power struggle. Eating is one of three areas in which toddlers have legitimate power and they use it to exert their hard-wired need for power and some “control” over their lives. The other two ways are sleeping and pottying. We can’t make our kids eat, sleep or potty – that is totally in their control and they know it. (See blog post on “Shift the Power Paradigm”) [...]

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