Kids are just kids! In addition to being delightful, charming and affectionate, children can also present their adult caretakers with a steady diet of difficult behavior: whining, arguing, teasing, fighting, yelling, tantrums and pouting. It’s enough to shoot a parent to the moon!
If your child has begun to rule the roost, check out clinical psychologist Dr. Thomas W. Phelan’s book, 1-2-3 Magic: Effective Discipline for Children 2-12 (123 Magic)
The gist of the plan is to enable parents to discipline children by instituting a system of counting and time-outs, delivered straightforwardly and unemotionally. The method is simple, and though it’s not quite magic, it may feel like it is.
