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[quote=Anonymous]My youngest is like this and we had to reframe our thinking. 123 Magic worked very well for my easy going oldest. With my youngest, he likes to argue and fight. He gets energy from it. So we just don't feed it. If he's messing with the cat, we remove him and quietly just say "do not upset the cat." We can't raise our voices to him because that puts us in a power struggle- when really there is no struggle. We're 32 years older than him! He does do timeouts and he thinks about things a lot, but also a lot of gentle redirecting. Plus a massive amount of praise. We also tapped into things that he likes and we do that with him a lot. He's our big helper and likes to set the table, unload the dishwasher and loves tasks. We started 6 months ago and everyone can't stop talking about how our DS turned around and is such a happy, pleasant child now. And he really is! [/quote]
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