hi. i’m going to talk about what you mightwant to do when your child refuses to acknowledge that you’re right. sometimes when your childdoes something that you find to be very wrong, they won’t acknowledge at all that you areright and that they have made a mistake. so for example, your son, jack, might hit yourother son, aidan. when you’re talking to jack about this, rather than look at you andsaying, "yes mommy. i made a mistake," or "okay mommy, i’m sorry." he might go likethis and just sort of smile and look out of the corner of his eyes. this for a mothercan be literally infuriating. so the question is, what do you do in this situation? oneof the best pieces of advice another mom ever gave me was to say the following, “don'tlook for your child to acknowledge that you
are right. don’t look for them to agreewith you. just discipline them or give them
a time out or talk to them. and say what you’regoing to say and leave it at that." so in this case, you might decide that this meriteda time out. and afterwards you might say, "jack, you shouldn’t hit your brother, andi don’t want you to do it again." and just leave it at that.
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