When your child was whining

When you were faced with a child, who was crying, whining, tantrumming, shrieking, screaming or yelling, didn't you do everything possible to get the behavior to stop? It's a very normal response if you did. These are the common methodologies applied, have you used any of them?

• Yelling
• Hitting
• Ignoring
• Time out
• Spanking
• Screaming
• Distraction
• Punishment

But have you considered what it might feel like to be your little child and try to deal with those strong emotions that you expressed to them? If you could step in their shoes just to experience that feeling. So you know what your response does to them and their behavior?

Does your kid talk; or talk back?

Conversations can be such a pleasure if there is agreeableness and respect for what the other person is saying to you. The art of positive conversations is like mirroring. What you throw onward comes back at you with comparable tone and intensity. If you wear black, the mirror doesn't make it white for you. Likewise with children, they talk to you exactly the way you talk to them! They were not born with speech intonation abilities at birth. Everything they ever do is learnt from you. You have to accept all credit (as well as discredit) for who they are and how they behave…