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Calm Parenting: Stop Letting Your Child's Behavior Make You Crazy

January 05th, 201212:02 PM ET

By Empowering Parents

Does your child's behavior make you crazy? The truth is, there's no such thing as anxiety-free anything—let alone anxiety-free parenting. You worry about your child's behavior, health, attitude and relationships. You're anxious about how he's going to turn out and if he'll have success in life, and yet you're told over and over to "be cal...
How to Manage Aggressive Child Behavior

November 14th, 201104:51 PM ET

By Empowering Parents

I've talked with a lot of parents who feel out of control in the face of their child's anger and aggression. In fact, I can't tell you how many moms and dads have said, "I feel like I'm failing at parenting." In my opinion, it's not so important why you as a parent aren't effective at times—what's more important is what you do about it. Th...
Fighting with Your Teen? What to Do After the Blowout 7 Steps to Defuse the Tension

August 31st, 201112:33 PM ET

By Empowering Parents

Does this sound familiar? You've told your teen she can't go out with her friends this Friday because she came in past curfew last weekend. There's been a huge fight where one—or both of you—lost control and screamed at each other. Now the tension in the house is unbearable. Your child is irritable and argumentative—or sullen and mood...
Calm Parenting: How to Get Control When Your Child is Making You Angry

February 09th, 201111:24 AM ET

By Empowering Parents

Why is it so easy to go from "zero to 60" when our kids make us angry? There are many reasons, but I think it's mainly because we allow ourselves to go to 60. And in a sense, when we get up to 60—when we react emotionally—we're allowing the behavior of our kids to determine how we'll behave rather than the other way around. We do so m...