Parenting Advice Needed

[rredhead]

Please read my post on Jack's blog, and, if you have any thoughts or suggestions, make some, either here or there.
Thank you!
http://chittisterchildren.wordpress.com/

Comments

[psyko_kitty]

This may or may not be obvious to you, but from Jack's point of view the last few months might look like this

[rredhead]

This is great! Thank you for this perspective. I did think that maybe Jack feels somehow put-upon, because yes, there is a lot of stress around here. Our day care provider has a camera and takes pics of the kids.
The other thing is that both baby and little girl are girls - they're the only girls and there are 4 boys including Jack.

[ntiva]

psyko_kitty has some really good input there. I agree with what she had to say.

When Alex misbehaves, we always try to focus on what he's doing right versus what he's doing wrong. It goes a long way to build up his confidence and feel good about himself. My guess is Jack doesn't like the way he is acting, either. Sometimes when Alex got in those spirals, he just needed a bit of a "reset" to get him back to his sweet self. That usually involved *me* taking a deep breath and not anticipating every action from him to be an unsavory one.