Parenting Your Child's Fear

The type structure struggles to trust itself, which makes establishing authority tricky as apparent. Resistance to taking on the role of authority paired with fear can mean that you vacillate between being authoritarian and permissive. The goal is to find the middle ground here. Decide what your values are as apparent in what your resolution style is, and then do it on purpose. This will take you out of reactive mode and help you to both avoid confrontation and also avoid reactivity. Number three, trust in your child's loyalty. Stion them about their motives for their behavior. Try not to be reactive when you think your children are being disloyal to you or the family.