Family: My Kids are Driving Me Crazy!

My Kids are Driving Me Crazy!

Written by Mark Brandenburg MA, CPCC

When you conduct parent workshops, you start to see repparttar

same issues coming up over and over for parents. The names and faces are different, but repparttar 111109

issues are repparttar 111110

same. And

truth is that parents are often responsible for many of these problems.

Here are three issues that keep coming up for parents, and an explanation of how parents can often solve their own problems.

Problem #1: My kids don’t listen to me

To expect that kids will listen to you perfectly all repparttar 111112 time is an irrational thought. Kids are in a very different place than adults are in terms of their ability to listen and attend to things. Kids will often need you to repeat things a number of times in a patient, pleasant tone. And yes, your job is to be very patient with them.

It is often repparttar 111113 “parental” tone of parents’ voices that is part of repparttar 111114 problem with kids not listening. After all, who wants to be lectured about what to do all day? If things still don’t work, take action—kids will respond to action much better than they will to words.

Problem #2: My kids aren’t respectful—they talk back and argue too much

One of repparttar 111115 problems with not having obedient kids anymore is that kids feel more freedom to speak their mind. This can be irritating, but it’s far better than obedient kids that just do what they’re told.

If your child talks to you in a disrespectful way, you have choices. One choice is to be angry with them and to actually create more of repparttar 111116 very behavior that you dislike. Getting angry when your child talks back to you is a great example of creating your own problems.

Exposing the Damage: TV and Kids

Written by Mark Brandenburg MA, CPCC

There are millions of young children in this country who are being horribly mistreated by their parents.

These parents aren’t physically abusing their young children, and they may not even know that they’re mistreating them.

The mistreatment?

Millions of kids under repparttar age of two are watching TV in this country. In fact, according to a study by repparttar 111108 Kaiser Family Foundation of over 1,000 parents, about 65% of kids under age two are watching TV, and they’re averaging over two hours of watching a day.

They’re watching even though repparttar 111109 American Academy of Pediatrics recommends no TV for kids under age two. They’re watching even though this is a crucial period for their cognitive development, at an age when their brains are still being formed.

And repparttar 111110 news for these kids just got worse.

Scientists at Children's Hospital & Regional Medical Center in Seattle who studied over 2,500 children found a link between early TV watching and attention problems at a later age.

Specifically, repparttar 111111 chances of one and three-year-old kids developing attention problems at age seven increased by 10% for every hour of TV watched each day.

The information from these two studies creates a chilling picture of what’s happening to millions of toddlers in this country. It’s unfair, immoral, and unjust, and it needs to be addressed.

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