Parenting could really be frustrating, especially when parents have kids that are "difficult." Ways about how parents should handle these frustrations are actually available at their doorsteps, others might have found out, while others are still being knocked.
These ways, however, are also helpful to parents not only for raising their kids but also in every critical situation they are into. According to Empowering Parents, knowing what a parent should do doesn't necessarily translate into being able to do it.
Parents know the right thing to do but in the midst of the battle, their emotional brain gets stirred up and lose sight of their logical brain. Some parents would begin to be so reactive in the form of yelling and screaming, but this should not be the case.
First is setting the right perspective. Kids, may they be "difficult" or not is only acting normally if they are annoying. Those are age appropriate actions, thus parents should change perspective and not easily give into these frustrating acts of the kids.
If changing perspective is not effective, then it is not a child who has a problem. Second is identifying feelings, parents must take responsibility of their actions and even their emotions towards their kids. According to Psychology Today, a new study found out that parenting style would greatly affect the levels of child behavioral problems, cognitive skills and social ability.
Third way and the last one is letting go of worries and focusing on the good side. Parenting style was quite broadly divided into positive and negative, with negative parenting typified by more hostility and controlling behavior and positive parenting relating to more warmth and supervision and letting go of worries.
People all pass in the stage of childhood where they don't often care about what is going on around them. As parents, one must adjust their needs, set aside their selfish emotional concerns for children to grow better. Remember, kids won't be kids forever either way.
