Thanks to the many parents who joined the free parent training webinar last night! We had 44 parents on the line with lots of questions and I didn’t have time to answer all of them. Below you will find answers to the remaining questions:
Q: How do you give positive attention to a teenager [...]
Don’t forget your tweens and teens when dishing out the hugs. They need it too – especially your boys who may act like they are too old or too cool to hug mom and dad! (However, they would probably prefer you didn’t do it in front of their friends.)
Amy McCready is a highly sought-after [...]
Actually, they aren’t hard to correct. It’s just that parents often pick the wrong strategy to correct them!
Don’t feel bad about this. Discipline approaches for power struggles are NOT INTUITIVE. In fact, the opposite is true: most of the intuitive approaches that parents use to “correct” power struggles, actually make them worse.
Power struggles may present [...]