My daughter is 4, but she acts like a 14 year old sometimes! We are constantly having power struggles over simple things, and she always wants to see who has the stronger will. I will admit, hers is pretty darn strong. I have never seen a child that can fight it out until the bitter end, and still have energy left to kick and scream in her room as I am hollering that she needs to stay in time out. Needless to say, it is not any fun. And it obviously isn’t working.
When Sharon contacted me to see if I would be interested in reviewing one of her Proactive Parenting seminars, I was unsure. I decided to check out her site and see if it was something I thought I could do. As soon as I clicked on the available seminars, I knew two things for sure. 1.) I could relate to so many of the topics, I just had to try one out. and 2.) I was completely torn between which one would be best for my situation. I eventually narrowed it down to two seminars: Correcting the Willful Child and No Argue Power Struggles.
After much thought, I decided to try the Correcting the Willful Child seminar in the hopes that the power struggles would end once the behavior was corrected! Our power struggles tend to occur when I am attempting to disciple V and correct a behavior that I do not like. My thought was that if I could end these behaviors, the amount of power struggles would decrease as well.
I was very excited to watch the seminar and give it a try with V. I hate to fight and argue with her, and I am pretty much open to anything that will help our days go smoother.
I enjoyed the seminar, and found that it was very easy to “attend”. Because you download it directly to your computer, it is very convenient to watch. I liked that I could pause it (which I had to do once when the baby woke up) and that I could go back and watch it again.
I did try the method with V, and I have found it to be successful with her. We still do timeout sometimes, because sometimes we are both too far into the battle of wills to take a step back, relax and remember. She does like that with our new method she gets to take a short break and think about what she is supposed to be doing. Most of the time it does help to deflect the power struggle; because she is not being punished, she doesn’t feel the need to get defensive and fight back – which is wonderful!
We are still working on it, and I hope to be able to use this technique with my son as he gets older as well. I was very happy with this seminar, and I would purchased more in the future. I think that more parents (and people in general) need to remember to “Stop Reacting and Start Responding” ; the very insightful motto of Proactive Parenting.
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Wanted to let you know I Stumbled this and it was a discovery “1st stumble”. Thanks for writing this review, it is hard sometimes to choose a format to use when disciplining children. And I sadly believe some people just don’t know what to do.
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It is hard finding a way to teach and sometimes discipline children. There are so many opinions and methods that it is hard to find on that works for you. I loved this seminar in that it really can be adapted to work for every parent and child. We are still using this method, and I am still seeing results!