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[quote=Anonymous]This is the time to help your child feel secure with you as the parent and them as the child. Set healthy boundaries and when they are exceeded help them to find their way back across the line. Life is not always what we want. Your child is discovering this and is finding their own way to cope. Running to your room is not an acceptable way to cope with disappointment and circumstances that do not please you. With my children I used the platitude, "this is life." and went on to explain that things are not always going to go your way and offered to help them to find acceptable ways to deal with it. I would give the runaway child a few minutes  to calm down and then go up and " help" them to discover a better way of coping. You may need to get their attention by making  an "adjustment" to their bottoms to help them realize that unacceptable behavior had taken place. Always after that tell them you love them and encourage a better response/behavior until they learn to accept help in working out a more acceptable response. This is a very normal procedure and teaching moment. I am praying for you as you both adjust to this new stage in development. There is more to come.[/quote]

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