Like I said ^^ I take priviliges away, which gets me two things:
anger from my child directed at me and an almost instant improvement in behavior.
I also talk, and talk, and talk. I make sure I let my kids have opinions, as I grew up in a house that I could not have one, or at least I thought so:-)
What agravates (how do you spell check here?) me most is that I see no appreciation for what I do ( like yesterday's ski trip), no happiness afterwards. There is happiness before and during that activity, but afterwards I see this attitude like everything is so lame and so not worth the effort. This just about DRIVES ME NUTS.
All I am after is for DS to learn how to control his negative feeling and negative attitude. Like I have indicated above, I will allow angry outbursts as long as they are followed by "I am sorry, I was out of line, and then withdrawl for a while to compose oneself.
