Stop Parent-Child Power Struggles by Stopping These Words

To win cooperation from strong-willed children, focus on not being adversarial, pleading, or fearful of resistance.  These types of responses feel disrespectful or weak which diminishes your authority and often opens the door to power struggles. Avoid these common responses.   Answering your kid’s “why?” when they already know the answer. You’ll end up defending…

How Parents Can Teach Siblings to Solve Their Fighting

Are you being “forced” to judge sibling conflicts?   As difficult as they are, each sibling conflict gives us an opportunity to either teach our children or to try to control our children.   When we use discipline parenting strategies we are approaching the conflict as a teachable moment; an opportunity for our children to…