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Understanding Why Your Son is Challenging.
“His greatest personal strengths are exactly those things that make it most difficult to be his parent,” mom of a challenging boy. Challenging boys have many great personal strengths. They are sensitive, empathic, energetic, driven, persistent, principled, and...
The Universal Need for Parental Acceptance
Child development is so complex that there are practically no certainties. There are experienced, well-meaning, well-credentialed experts lined up on all sides of almost every major issue in parenting. This uncertainty and confusion of conflicting expert opinion can...
The Power of Positive Parenting: Gottman’s Magic Ratio
The Power of Positive Parenting: Gottman's Magic RatioMarriage and family researcher, John Gottman, has observed that spouses in happy, stable marriages engage in positive expressions of feelings and actions towards each other about five times as often as they engage...
Stop Blaming Yourself: Work the Problem People!
Stop Blaming Yourself: Work the Problem People!As if raising a challenging boy wasn’t stressful, exhausting and difficult enough, parents of challenging boys also have to contend with the advice, judgment and blame of friends, relatives, and strangers at the...
10 Best Parenting Books for Parents of Challenging Boys
Three Books Every Parent Of A Challenging Child Should Read These are some of my absolute favorite books on parenting of all time. Each one is well worth the read (and the first one doesn’t even require reading because it's an audiobook!). 1. How to Talk So Kids Will...
Oppositional, Rebellious, Difficult, Defiant, Explosive, Spirited, Challenging ... What's in a Name? Who are Challenging Boys? They are kids who get tagged with many negative labels: oppositional, difficult, defiant, manipulative, willful, noncompliant, rigid,...