Comments on: Help Me Stop Yelling at My Child https://www.janetlansbury.com/2017/05/help-me-stop-yelling-at-my-child/ elevating child care Wed, 26 Apr 2023 04:03:11 +0000 hourly 1 By: Katrina https://www.janetlansbury.com/2017/05/help-me-stop-yelling-at-my-child/comment-page-1/#comment-127460 Tue, 07 May 2019 03:46:54 +0000 http://www.janetlansbury.com/?p=17760#comment-127460 How do I apply this with an 11yo? I’m at my wits end with his constant need for attention. It’s been this way good whole life. Even immediately after spending time with him, moving on to something else in life will set him off. He antagonizes his sisters just to get attention. I can tell him we’re going for ice cream and it turns into a fight. Last week, after another fight, he emerged from his room holding back tears, and asked me why I hate him. (I didn’t say that to him, it was his own conclusion based on all the screaming and fighting) That was so much worse than hearing that he hates me. I’ve never been a screamer, but he just pulls it out of me. Please help. I want to love him.

What worries me more is that my immediate response was not “I don’t hate you,” but rather, “well…”

]]> By: Christa https://www.janetlansbury.com/2017/05/help-me-stop-yelling-at-my-child/comment-page-1/#comment-127458 Mon, 06 May 2019 18:20:14 +0000 http://www.janetlansbury.com/?p=17760#comment-127458 Our 2.5 year old is going through something extremely similar. It all started the moment her baby brother was born, which coincided with a change of day care for her. My question is how do you address the night terrors? At the beginning we would walk into her room and rub her back until she fell back asleep. But eventually these terrors led to multiple night wakings. It is completely heartbreaking, frustrating and exhausting. We are thinking that we shouldn’t go into her room the first time because it gives her the idea that we will continue to sooth her rather than let her sooth herself for every single wakeup. Are we damaging her if we let her cry bt herself until she falls asleep?

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