“Wouldn’t you, as a parent, want to get some training to be able to do the best job that you can?”
In the article about the pros and cons of parenting classes, one mother says she advised her friend with a kvetchy child to ignore him because he was looking for negative attention.
Absolutely not!
Negative attention usually tells me the child is in need of positive attention.
When they’re further ignored, the child may turn to hitting or breaking stuff to finally get the attention they needed in the first place.
Esther Bron
Thank you for this fascinating feature. Some important questions were raised, which I’d like to address from the perspective of a parenting instructor (and parent):
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