4. ● “Try not to be in the
power struggle
moment, because
I've always said
there's no
rationalizing with
screaming heads,".
5. We tell our kids "Don't do this"
or "Don't do that" after they've
done something wrong, said
Renner. "But 'don't' doesn't tell
them where to go. It doesn't
move you forward. It tells you
stop. So tell them what you
want them to do."
6. A North Carolina mom
punishes her son for
being suspended from
school by having him
wear a sign on a busy
street.
7. "Out of control is not a problem;
that's a reality," Pickhardt said.
"What adolescence does is, it
disillusions parents," he added.
Parents think they have control
over their child and then realize
they do not. But they do have
control over their own conduct,
8. To spank or not to spank? If a
parent's first course of action to
deal with their child's behavior is
not working, they should try
something else, but probably not
spanking, according to
psychologists who say it hasn't
been shown to be good for kids.
10. I do not agree with the article, one of the point
of the article wants parent and educated to do,
is to reason with an adolescence after they
broke the rules, many research have shown
that young adolescence frontal lobe is not fully
develop at that age, so how can you reason
with someone with no reasoning or self
control skills. We seem to be the only country
to have kids misbehaving and kids acting out
is new thing.