Does your child tend to be cranky, especially in the morning? Everyone gets irritable from time to time, and that’s OK. Still, it isn’t always easy to be around a cranky kid. Recently a major parenting forum included a post by a parent who wants to know how to deal with her 10-year-old son’s “crankies.” …
The following request for advice was recently posted to a parents’ forum I’m a part of. I’ve changed some of the specifics so as to protect the anonymity of the mom who posted, and my response to her follows! I know that children learn empathy through modeling and it takes time, but I would like …
One time I heard a parent say that she was surprised that her child could communicate without whining: “I didn’t know that my younger child could regulate his voice! I thought that whining was just ‘his voice’!” As I explained to this mother, whining – or any tone of voice – is a learned habit …
