Is it your parenting style or your child’s temperament?
Is it your child’s temperament or your parenting style that fuels the power struggles in your house? Often when it comes to our child’s behaviour we become heavily focused on their actions, their feelings, their wants and needs. We question why they behave in certain ways and wonder if it will ever stop. How often do you stop to think about your own behaviour and how it affects them.
Sometimes?
Rarely?
Never?
Be honest here!
As parents, we are emotional beings that react with our gut. These natural tendencies of ours are linked to our personality and our personality heavily guides our parenting style. There’s no one parenting style that is better than the next but we do have to consider our personal weaknesses in parenting and make the choice to change our behaviour to better support our kids.
Let’s figure this out together...Which parenting style category do you fall into? You might fall into more than 1 category and that's completely fine. After you read this, your homework is to try out at least 2 of the strategies in the "try this" column and let me know how it goes.
If you and your child often clash because you have similar personalities, then I want you to click here and book in a FREE 30 minute call so we can discuss more strategies for you to pull out of your back pocket. I want you to enjoy every waking moment you have with your child. There's not enough room in the day for frustration, anger, or feelings of defeat.