Actual Solutions for Demanding Behaviors in Your Child

Hey there,

Parenting kids with demanding behavior can be challenging. When kids exhibit demanding behavior, it often comes through as arguing, whining, complaining, and badgering. These behaviors aim to wear down parents so that our child can get what they want.

And wear us down the do ... but it doesn't have to be this way. If you'd like to see a heart change that also leads to a behavior change in your child, ​check out this week's video​:

As parents, we need to balance ambition and contentment in our child's heart. These are both good heart qualities we want to see in our children, but too much ambition can cause a child to place a higher value on their wants than on relationships - thus causing demandingness to develop.

To address this fully, parents need to have practical strategies that help correctly handle demandingness when and crops up in a child AND strategies that proactively start developing contentment in that child's heart as well. We need to start shifting the conversation with our children from arguing about issues to focusing on the process they are using to get what they want while also cultivating contentment and emotional flexibility.

Wow! That's sounds like a lot!

Actually, in some ways it is ... and in some ways it's not.

Yes, this is going to take time and a concerted effort (and you may see an increase in negative responses at first until things get better), but the parenting shifts you likely need to make are not difficult once you know what they are and how to do them.

That's what I'll show you in ​this week's video​.

All my best,

B.J.