How to Get Your Kid in and Out of the Bathtub

Dr. Marcom: All misbehavior is a cry for help o connection, respond to the need and the behavior will change. When kids express anything, it's asking. It's a bid, you know, John Gopt, I would call it a bid, BID, a bid for something, for connection, for acknowledgement. So we don't have to give them whatever they're asking for, but can acknowledge that we see it on their behalf. We hear them when our 12-year-old snaps at us or says 'Please speak that way to me'

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