How to avoid losing your temper when your child won’t listen

There are always the endless pressures of life: appointments we’re late to, things we’ve forgotten until the last moment, health and financial worries and the list goes on. In the middle of that stress enters our child who won’t unglue herself from the TV to do her homework, won’t touch anything on her plate for dinner or is teasing her little brother. Whatever your child is doing, losing your temper doesn’t help. If yelling at your child worked, being a parent would be easy.

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