A Survival Guide for the 2-5 Year Olds Who Push Back on Everything
You're bracing for the next meltdown before it's even started.
By the 10th "no," the constant whining, the moment they throw your own words back at you, you're not thinking about scripts or positive parenting anymore. You're thinking, “Is this ever going to get easier?? Is my child always going to be like this??”
One mom described this exact feeling to me recently. Her 3-year-old, in her word...
The One Thing You Say at Bedtime That Backfires
One of you sent me this question recently, and I haven't stopped thinking about it since. I think almost every parent of more than one young kid has lived some version of this exact night.
They are very close and have a dynamic where the older one will start to get dysregulated, tired, hungry, whatever it is, and will begin getting silly, too silly, and then egging her sister on to join. The...
"I’M SLEEPING HERE!!" What Bedtime Standoffs Are Actually About
"She has a very hard time going to bed on her own and will not let us go downstairs when it's bedtime."
A TMP Times member sent me that line recently, and if you're already nodding, here's the rest of what she told me.
Her daughter put on her pajamas, jumped straight into her parents' bed, and said, "I'm SLEEPING HERE!" When her mom asked her to come back to her room, together, not alone, she...

