Reply to How to regain control when the tween is ruling the roost

Forum Index » Tweens and Teens

Reply to "How to regain control when the tween is ruling the roost"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can't be serious.

Not sure she's met too many Tweets and teens. [/quote]

I don't know what counts as many, but I've raised two to adulthood and have a 15 year old and a 9 year old now.

I found that it works best to begin by approaching any situation as though I believe the kids are competent members of the household who would prefer a mutually agreeable solution over continued conflict and who see their position on an issue as reasonable for reasons that make sense to them.

If I try to demonstrate a good faith attempt to understand their view of the situation and find a solution that works for everyone, I tend to get more reciprocation of that respect than when I simply insist on compliance.

Of course, if that doesn't work, the kid in question is demonstrating lack of either desire or ability to solve problems in a mature way and they find themselves treated according to that apparent immaturity when it comes to privileges they are permitted until such time as they're ready to actually address the problem. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics