Before I tell you how to handle disrespectful behavior in your child, let’s talk a little about what’s going on with them. If your kid has suddenly started talking back, rolling her eyes and copping an attitude, as annoying and difficult as it is to deal with, disrespectful...
Not every mother-daughter relationship reads like a Hallmark card, and our culture makes that a shameful secret to bear. Dr. Christiane Northrup suggested that the bonding hormones that flood a mother’s blood stream at childbirth stay with women for about 28 years. It is no accident, then,...
There is a multitude of reasons that adult children disapprove of a parent’s actions. It could be a daughter-in-law, mother-in-law, or son-in-law problem. Or it could be the loss of a parent from divorce or death, the remarriage of the mother, an adult child’s mental illness pro...
Your daughter-in-law can feel intimidated and nervous around you, especially if she is young. It isn't because you've done anything wrong but that she doesn't want to make a misstep. If the couple is newly married, your DIL may be trying to figure out her place in the family, and...
grounding and lectures. The father is the disciplinarian and has been asked on numerous occasions to "straighten our son out" because he was being disrespectful and talking back to his mother. At no time has the father disrespected or talked bad about the mother in front of the son. In fa...
Overprotective parents can make even the simplest things, like going out with friends and having a boyfriend, into major sources of conflict. This creates long-term problems for the child. Learn some tips on how to get them to give you some freedom.
(Ie: my adult daughter and her husband letting under 21 child have alcohol ‘on special occasions’ in their home rather than Say not til 21) . Makes it a green light to other times I when not w/ parents. Their answer when I said ‘you are really ok w/ that? ‘ was…I’d ...
My mother has succeeded and has manipulated my daughter into the bond I had with my daughter! I have been single for a long time because that is how my daughter wanted it due to my mothers brainwashing her that she would be less important! I have no family I can rely on, no ...
I am just tired of her constantly nagging me over things I don't want to do. Recently, she had her car repossessed because she wasn't paying the note on the car and now she wants me to get a car in my name so her daughter can get back and forth to work and college. She has ...
Do NOT engage with them if they are being mean or dis-respectful. YOU need to set the precedent. Re-engage as soon as the attitude changes. Do not hold a grudge. Focus on the behavior you want. Do not take them places, do things for them, or buy them things when they are being/...