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My husband and I more and more value how much positive attention changes everything.
For one, it's less stressful for us, and for two, it creates a more effective and positive response from our son.
When he throws fits, ignores us, says "no", resists........we simply take a deep breath and calmly respond, not ignoring, but responding to him with Love. We simply repeat, for example, if he wishes to play a game, we ask that he get his jammies on first. After a few minutes of whining, he figures out that he's got to do what we ask in order to get what he wants. Makes life a whole lot simpler and eases unessecary stress.
You hear the saying that kids will take any attention, positive or negative. Why not give them positive? Positive energy only creates and reacts with more positive energy. Negative energy only creates and reacts with more negative energy.
This can be applied to everyday interactions with people, but is most effective and valuable to a child's life. It will help them throughout their life and develop a healthy social manner with everyone. It will help them use patience and positive interaction.
Especially when you want to pull your hair out, that is when you need to just take a deep breath and summon patience into your mind. At first you may have listen to an hour of screaming and whining, but they will soon realize you mean business- positive business.