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Reply to "getting 5 and 7 yo to listen without yelling"
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[quote=Anonymous]I was doing a lot of yelling and it got better when we started doing Parent-Child Interactive Therapy (PCIT) with our oldest child, who was 4 at the time and had/has anxiety. The therapy was ostensibly for my kid, but it helped me a lot too. It's about setting boundaries and expectations. My main take away was not to repeat myself and not to ask my kids to do too many things at once. Get their attention, make one command ("brush your teeth" rather than "brush your teeth, then put on your pajamas"), and put them in time out if they don't listen within a reasonable amount of time. Repeating myself was driving me crazy and wasn't doing anything to get them to actually do the task.[/quote]
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