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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  Thanks for these suggestions.  I will incorporate these suggestions.

Is it normal that these power struggles are occurring 4-5 times per day?  Seems like a lot to me and it's leading to a lot of crying fits.  Nothing new/different has occurred in our environment since they started.

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Seems normal to me. Same thing happened when my older one turned 5. It's a pain. What helps is consistency and firmness, and not getting sucked into the drama. He screams that he doesn't want dinner? I tell him fine, you don't have to eat, but you do need to go to your room for being rude. He gets upset that he didn't wash his hands before his younger sister? I remind him that's because he refused to do it the first time when I said it was time to wash hands.

Also, in calmer moments, we talk about why what he did wasn't acceptable and how we can listen better next time.

He is 5.5 now and has improved a lot. Probably still have this sort of thing once or twice on an average day, almost always centered around dinner (he is picky and doesn't eat much for lunch at school so by dinner time he is starving and short-tempered) or mornings when he has to stop playing and get ready for school.[/quote]

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