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- Strong willed children can be a challenge when they’re young, but if sensitively parented, they become terrific teens and young adults. Self-motivated and inner-directed, they go after what they want and are almost impervious to peer pressure. As long as parents resist the impulse to "break their will," strong-willed kids often become leaders.
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- Choose your battles. It’s easy for parents to get burned out by conflict or the battle of wills in a household with a strong-willed child. But you don’t have to engage in every battle.
- Have clear expectations. Children thrive with boundaries, structure, and routine, says Amodio. They might complain about these things, but deep down, it's what keeps them feeling safe and supported.
- Find ways to give your child some autonomy. For strong-willed children, it’s critical they feel like they have a voice and get to make some decisions for themselves, says Alana Carvalho, LMHC, and author of Raising Empowered Children.
- Explain your reasoning. Strong-willed children often need to understand the why behind requests, decisions, or boundaries that parents establish. Taking the time to explain your reasoning can head off what might otherwise be a battle.
- Be Calm. Calmness helps you tap into your intuition and parenting intelligences. It lets you respond to their beliefs rather than their behaviors. For example, your child may have an outburst, but instead of immediately correcting the behavior, you can try understanding what he sees and wants.
- Be Clear. Clarity helps you reinforce boundaries rather than spend your time and energy nagging and arguing. Tell your child the rules and consequences – good and bad – and reinforce what you have discussed.
- Be Consistent. Consistency helps strong-willed children learn that being in charge is not up for grabs. While it’s not always easy, the parents must be united in their approach.
- Follow Through. Strong-willed children want to know that you mean what you say. They respect and trust resolute authority. When you follow through, it is as if you’re putting money in the Bank of Trust between you and your child.
- Don’T: Let Your Child Eat you.
- Don’T: Continuously Resent Their Personality Traits and Temperament
- Don’T: Play The ‘Do as I Say and Not as I Do’ Card
- Don’T: Remain Closed Off to New Ways of Doing Things with Your Child
- Don’T: Remain Stuck in What’s Not Working with Your Child
- Don’T: Let The Judgments of Others Get to You
- Don’T: Take Your Child’S Behaviors Personally
- Don’T: Forget You’Re on The Same Team
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Spoiler alert, many parents raising a strong willed child are fairly strong willed themselves. I remember having such a strong sense of conviction and pride as a child that I’d rather sit grounded in my room for days than admit I may have been wrong. This is the essence of the strong willedchild. The only way to get out of a power struggle is to no...
- Remember that strong-willed kids are experiential learners. That means they have to see for themselves if the stove is hot. So unless you’re worried about serious injury, it’s more effective to let them learn through experience, instead of trying to control them.
- Your strong-willed child wants mastery more than anything. Let her take charge of as many of her own activities as possible. Don’t nag at her to brush her teeth—ask “What else do you need to do before we leave?”
- Give your strong-willed child choices. If you give orders, he will almost certainly bristle. If you offer a choice, he feels like the master of his own destiny.
- Give her authority over her own body. “I hear that you don’t want to wear your jacket today. I think it’s cold and I am definitely wearing a jacket. Of course, you are in charge of your own body, as long as you stay safe and healthy, so you get to decide whether to wear a jacket.
- Understand That Your Strong-Willed Child is Built This Way. A child’s The first step to understanding your exuberant child is realizing this is their temperament, it is simply how they are built.
- See Your Strong-Willed Child’s Strengths and Joy! We have a tendency to only focus on the stubbornness, intensity, and willfulness that seems to come along with exuberance, but there are many positive traits about the exuberant child.
- Be Gentle and Playful With Your Strong-Willed Child. Research shows that children with exuberance will also develop high self-regulation when their mothers are rated as high in gentle discipline and responsiveness.
- Teach Your Strong-Willed Child Self-Regulation. Along with this joyous and unwary approach to life comes an impulsive side. Exuberant children have been found to be more at risk for developing more disruptive behavior (2), more risk-taking behaviors in childhood (3), ADHD (4), and more risk-taking behaviors (sex, drugs, alcohol) in their teen years(5).
Sep 14, 2021 · If you’re raising a strong-willed child, you may feel the urge to temper their ‘spirited’ or ‘stubborn’ personalities. Strong-willed kids are self-directed and focused on their own path, which is actually a great thing!
Nov 9, 2018 · Want to see a confident, experienced parent drop to their knees in desperation? Look for someone parenting a strong-willed child. The strong-willed child is excellent at launching great parents into full-on emotional breakdown mode with behaviors such as defiance, oppositionality and intense emotions.
