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  • Is Your Child Manipulating You?

    Is Your Child Manipulating You?

    Studies indicate that manipulative children are behaving in this way because they are vying for attention and trying to get their parents to listen. These kids feel isolated and have unmet needs. Certain types of parents are more likely to fall prey to manipulation. They include:

    * Permissive parents

    * Overindulgent parents

    * Domineering parents

    * Single parents

    * Overprotective parents

    Whether or not you fall into one of these categories isn’t really the issue. What is important is knowing how to successfully stop your child from manipulating you. It isn’t an overnight process by any means. But it CAN be done. Keep reading to learn more.

    Spend More Time Together

    Regardless of the age of your child, it’s essential to spend as much time with him or her as possible – especially when you notice increased manipulative behavior. This type of bonding makes a child feels safe and secure. It’s an indication that you’re always willing to listen.

    Even if your schedule only allows you to spend 15 to 20 minutes of quality time together at a time, try to fit two or three of these blocks into your day.

    Obviously, if your child is younger, more time will probably be required. During these times, don’t forget to express your love and appreciation. Doing so might tend to make your child less manipulative.

    Set Reasonable Limits

    All children need guidance. Setting reasonable limits helps to provide just that. In addition, most children actually welcome rules. These same rules provide structure in their lives. As your child gets older, less structure is typically necessary.

    If your child disagrees with the limits you’ve set forth, hold your ground. At this point, try not to lecture about why a particular rule was put into place.

    Calmly discussing the situation usually puts things into a better perspective – at least enough to keep the peace.

    Your child may compare you to other parents who happen to be more lenient about specific issues. But don’t let that sway you. You’re the one who knows what’s best for your child. Don’t let the comparison make you feel less confident in your parenting skills.

    Avoid Power Struggles

    Avoid power struggles at all costs. If your child refuses to comply with something that you’ve asked them to do, don’t continually insist that it be done immediately. Simply make your point and reiterate that there will be consequences if the task remains uncompleted. Arguing only makes things worse.

    You’ll have an easier time with this if your child’s other parent agrees with you when it comes to discipline. Presenting a united front makes it virtually impossible for children to talk the “weaker” parent into siding with them behind your back.

    Using these tips will put you on the right track with stopping your child’s manipulative behavior. One of the most important things to remember is not to give up. It is entirely possible to correct this situation. A manipulative child is never too young or old to change. Typically, the sooner you get started working on the problem, the better.

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  • Why Picking Your Battles Is Important

    Why Picking Your Battles Is Important

    As a parent, you’ll find yourself giving scads of bad news to your kids. Somebody has to tell them that they can’t stay up past their bedtime or eat ice cream for breakfast, right? The task is probably going to be left to you, and your kids aren’t always going to agree. Unfortunately, if you clash with them over everything they do wrong, it’ll be exhausting for all of you. Read on for tips on why and how you need to choose your battles.

    Save Yourself the Effort

    If you try to correct your child every single time they misbehave, you’ll wear yourself out in no time. Not only that but constantly correcting a toddler or young child while they’re trying to learn how the world works can be challenging for everybody.

    Take a minute to decide if your child’s behavior needs correcting or if it’s just a harmless phase. Telling a child to not take a favorite stuffed animal on car trips can be a struggle, but they may lose interest if you let them do it a few times first.

    Teach Your Child to Listen

    If all your child hears is the word “no,” they’ll eventually start to tune it out. They’ll get so used to being told that they can’t have things, they’ll develop a habit of coming up with ways to get them anyway.

    Instead of just saying no, try suggesting alternatives to the issue you’re handling. If you can’t get them to stop coloring on your walls, try giving them some paper to color on instead. This solution might get what they’re doing out of their system. Parents often devote too much focus on the short-term goal of stopping lousy behavior and raise kids that obey the rules rather than making wise decisions.

    Knowing Which Battles to Choose

    Unless you want to spend every moment in high alert for misbehavior, it’s essential to decide what sorts of issues you want to stand your ground on. As far as most parents are concerned, safety and health are the two most significant issues in which they hold firm. Your child may mean well, but they don’t always keep their wellbeing in mind when they make decisions.

    Beyond that, it is up to you to determine which behaviors pose a problem and which are merely bothersome. Try to imagine your child as an adult. Think about their behavior now. Which issues are not acceptable for adults? You’ll want to steer your child away from those.

    Keep Things Consistent

    The best way to make sure that your child follows the rules and routines that you layout for them is to enforce them consistently. If they aren’t allowed up past 9 pm on a school night, make sure to stick with it. Even one night of bending the rules lets your child know that your standards are “bendable.” No matter how small the issue, make sure that the rules of the house are always the rules.

    Here’s the good news: if you’ve been inconsistent in dealing with an issue in the past, it’s never too late to improve the situation. Come up with a set of rules, go over them with your child and adhere to them.

    When a parent argues with their children, they’re teaching them to fight for control of the situation. By choosing when to put your foot down, and by keeping these battles from becoming hostile in the first place, you’re making sure that a disagreement with your child is something that they learn from rather than resent.

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  • How to Head Off Stress & Anxiety Before They Happen

    How to Head Off Stress & Anxiety Before They Happen

    If you suffer from stress and anxiety, you probably want to avoid future run-ins with these problems. Of course, stress is inevitable, but you can learn to cope with it in a functional, healthy way. Here are some tips for staving off stress and anxiety before they catch up with you.

    1.) Good Nutrition

    This is listed as number 1 for a reason. It is one of the most important and effective means by which you can cope with stress and anxiety and prevent them from taking over your life. Some nutrients and foods that are good for proper brain and body function are:

    • Essential Fatty Acids, such as those found in olive oil, salmon, flax seeds, and other unrefined vegetable oils should be sought out and deliberately included in the diet.

    • Vitamin D

    This vitamin plays a significant role in mood regulation. In fact, has been used to treat people who suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD).

    2.) Regular Exercise

    This is also very important for avoiding the negative effects of stress and anxiety. Don’t wait until you feel stressed or anxious; like good nutrition, make exercise a part of your regular routine.

    Exercise increases circulation, and also induces the body to produce endorphins. These brain chemicals profoundly affect your mood and response to stress.

    Exercising with realistic goals is also important. You don’t want to bring on anxious feelings by “failing” at an enormous exercise goal like running a marathon right away when you’ve never run before.

    Keeping your goals realistic – say running an around a quarter-mile track once and walking another 3 laps – can boost your confidence and give you a sense of accomplishment. These are great weapons against stress and anxiety.

    3.) Positive Self-Talk

    You may need help in learning how to break negative self-talk patterns. Many of us have developed patterns of thought that automatically involve self-abasement.

    For example, if you make a mistake on a piece of paperwork, your mind may automatically begin “beating you up,” and you’ll have thoughts that you can’t do anything right, you are terrible at paperwork, and so forth. Learning to recognize this pattern and redirect your thoughts to more positive ones can help prevent further stress and anxiety.

    4.) Deep Breathing

    It may seem silly to focus on breathing as part of preventing stress and anxiety. Everyone knows how to breathe, right? Yes, everyone knows how to breathe, but few people know how to breathe properly.

    Deep breathing is the deliberate taking of breath that helps focus your thoughts and energy. It also promotes the circulation of oxygen throughout the body. Exhaling deeply and fully is also important, as this more thoroughly eliminates toxins from the body.

    5.) Rest

    Getting adequate sleep is essential for helping your body cope with stress. Everything seems bigger, scarier, and more worrisome when you are exhausted.

    6.) Know the Symptoms

    Learn to recognize your body’s cues that it’s experiencing too much stress and its resulting anxiety. Pay attention to things like feelings of restlessness, fatigue, anxious thoughts, and muscle tension. Once you learn to recognize the stressful trend, you can stop it before it takes hold.

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  • Your Daughter & Her Self Esteem (Body Issues)

    The Body Image Issue: What You Can Do

    When you have a daughter, it is important that you pay close attention to the body image issue. While all genders have the potential to care about how they look, it does tend to be a bigger problem with girls, since there is more pressure put on them to look a certain way. The following tips are going to help you raise your daughter to have a positive body image, which is extremely important for all your children.

    Focus on Your Daughter’s Personality and Intelligence

    It is okay to compliment the way your daughter looks, but don’t only focus on appearance. Get into the habit of giving her all types of compliments, focusing on her skills, talents, creativity, intelligence, accomplishments, and personality traits. Let her know you are proud of everything she has done, you admire her strength and bravery, and that you are proud of her trying new things. When you don’t put as much emphasis on how your daughter looks, she won’t think so much about it either. She will understand that a person’s appearance is not all they have.

    Be Careful What You Do and Say

    How you carry yourself and what you say about your own body makes more of a difference than you might think. Your daughter is watching you, even when you don’t realize it. Don’t give her a good reason to mimic your actions and then try to do or say the same things about herself. It is okay to be healthy and for you to encourage your daughter to be healthy, but talking bad about your weight, complaining the scale isn’t moving, or constantly trying new fad diets is not going to teach her anything that will be good for her own body image.

    Be Honest About People in the Media

    Your daughter is going to see people in the media and might be intimidated by these images. She might want to look like the girls she sees on social media, television, movies, and magazines. It is essential that you keep talking to her about realistic expectations and women’s bodies. Explain that these women might have different circumstances, from a personal trainer and a restricted diet, to simply being born with that frame. It can be a hard discussion to have, but your daughter needs to understand that no two people are alike or will look the same.

    Keep reminding your daughter that she should be healthy and proud of the body she has. Try to find the balance between encouraging healthy eating and exercise, but not putting so much emphasis on appearance.