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Parenting questions for Dr. Mary and Lynn

What to Do When Your Child Is Not Listening to You
The boys climb to the top of the slide and come down headfirst. Mom fumes, “They never listen to me! They are so disrespectful.” Then she yells at them, “I told you to stop going down headfirst!” Immediately, she feels terrible because now her sons are not listening to her AND she just yelled at them, even though she promised herself she was not going to do it.

When Your Child is Refusing to Do What She is Capable of Doing: Skill vs. Will
Being cooperative and successful is a combination of having the skill and having the will. Since Anna has dressed herself in the past and usually does so with little to no prompting when she “can’t dress herself” it’s pretty obvious she’s lacking the will. The question of course is why?