Parenting from the Heart: A Guide to the Essence of Parenting from the Inside-Out

Ohhh, honey, I want to play with you, but I’m really tired right now and if you just give me a little time to myself to take a break for maybe ten or twenty minutes (depending on the child’s age), then we’ll do something special together.” Which would serve us better?

Sweetie, you’ll have to take time out for yourself until you calm down, then we’d love you to come back when you’re ready,”

If we see bad behavior as acting out of insecurity we might ask ourselves how we can help take away his or her insecure thoughts.

Bad behavior is nothing more than people acting out of insecurity.

Sometimes we may have say to a child (something like), “I’m too upset to deal with this right now. We’ll talk later.” Sometimes we may have to say (something like), “It looks like you need to calm down some before we talk about this, so we’ll talk about it later.”