Kids will be kids, regardless of their age MOST will push whatever boundaries you’ve set for them. Break the rules, ignore threats and punishments and sometimes……….. they will be just down right evil brats just because they can!! If your kid isn’t like that, I have a couple of things to say. “Just wait for it.” (In the event they are little) OR “WTF did I do wrong?” (In the event they are a pre-nager or older.
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Raise your hand and repeat after me! “I’m the parent of a strong willed child.” Not sure if that helped at all but at least we are united in our stress!
These “strong willed kids” I speak of are smart! Not off the scales causing trouble because they are bored smart, but smart enough to know actions have consequences. Smart enough to be top of their class if they applied themselves to school rather than to breaking rules in what seems like an intentional effort to send you into a mental and emotional spin!
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All my kids have different personalities and most of them have “outbursts” of being strong willed from time to time. My eldest daughter however is “strong willed” 98 percent of the time. We fight, she’s loud, she’s emotional and she knows exactly how to press my buttons. Taking into account that I’ve been her mother her entire life, you would think she would have my reactions and her punishments all figured out and know what is needed for that NOT to happen. Who am I kidding, she’s 12 ….. it’s her job to send me crazy.
I do however hold hope, and want to share this epiphany with you all. Especially those of you with Strong willed kids. It’s going to be ok!! Strong willed kids turn into strong willed adults. They raise children and build homes. Create and run businesses. Build companies, empires and countries. Embrace and encourage their strengths and try to balance it out along the way. Teach love, compassion, empathy and sympathy. They will get there in the end.
I will still argue with my daughter and wonder why she is the way she is. All the while knowing that she is a mirror image of me and secretly pretending that she isn’t. What can I say “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.”
Bye
Bec
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