How to Deal With a Child Who Shows Defiance for Everything You Ask Him or Her to Do

When you stand firm and then am step aside and allow them that activity, that is actually reinforcing them to keep nagging you. I mean, i'll give you an example. When i was a tea nater, i would ask my mother if i could do something, and she, quite reasonably, would possibly say no. It would usually bark going out in the evenings or something. And i'd nag at her until she said, ask you father, which was the very thing i wanted her to say. Because i knew he would be more likely to let me do it. So i think there are many things to unpack here. But this is probably ging o, take