Understanding Your Child’s Behavior

The first skill certainly seems obvious.  A child needs to undertand what is expected of them and be cognitively, physically and emotionally capable of doing it.  I find that I often overestimate and sometimes underestimate what my children are capable of.  For example, I’m never quite sure how many chores I should give them.  They are [...]

Often the beahivor that an adult wants a child to do seems minor and easy to them.  It seems easy for us to remember to pick up our towels off the bathroom floor after a shower.  It seems easy to remember not to grab toys out of our friends hands and then to not hit [...]

I’m having some incredibly difficult parenting days recently.  My younger son, who has always been trying, has become far more difficult.  He’s what I call, “persistent.”  When he has a desire, if I stand in the way, he just keeps focusing on it and driving for it. 
One day, when we were playing outside, he wanted [...]