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How To Calmly Discipline Your Children When Emotions Are High
When your child chooses to deliberately disobey you, it is frustrating. Emotions can rise, causing moms to respond in ways they may regret later. The scenario in our How To Control Your Emotions When Your Children Frustrates You blog is a good place to start.
Your daughter yells, “NO!”, after you calmly ask her to “please take your cereal bowl to the kitchen sink.” It is especially tough because there is emotional residue left from the evening before when you fought with your husband over finances and had to drag yourself out of bed three times to care for your sick son. This morning, your daughter refuses to get her shoes on. All you are trying to do is get everyone out the door before they are late. Then you hear, “NO!” You don’t want to respond in anger like your mom did, but things just keep building up…
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