Your child is screaming at the top of their lungs and everyone is looking at you. What do you do? And how long do you withhold privileges from your children once they have changed their attitude? These are the two questions that I will answer in this podcast.
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Question #1: Carli who lives in an upstairs apartment is worried about disturbing the downstairs neighbor with her 4 year old’s extremely loud outbursts. (Audio Question)
Here are two options:
1. Explain to the neighbor what you are attempting to do by helping your child realize they are not the queen. You are taking the powerful little buzzard by the beak and working on discipline. Please forgive us in advance, and know we are not killing her!
2. If the neighbor won’t cooperate, take the child to the bread and water treatment. No special things.
If you have not read my two books, Parenting Your Powerful Child, and Have a New Kid by Friday, you will find some great tools in there.
Question #2: (Audio Question) Sophie asks how long to withhold things once a child changes their behavior.
- Don’t be looking for perfection!
Look at the big picture. - Play your aces wisely and carefully.
- Make a week by week, situation by situation analysis
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