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Through in-home assessment and support, Annie works with you by showing you the keys to bringing up happy, confident and well-behaved children. Banish whining, bedtime battles and other challenging behaviors. Annie gives expert advice for CBC Television, and for the Calgary Herald, amongst others and over the years has helped parents solve every behavior problem you can think of! If you're having behavior issues with your kids, Annie can help!
Current Notices for the month of July, 2010
Hello everyone! There's a new article on my peak parenting page and a new letter (scroll down) to read as well as lots of information on this website to help with parenting issues. As always, I enjoy reading your letters so feel free to write in and I'll try and give you a reply as soon as I can. All the best to you and yours.
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Letters of the week
7yr old boy that says you can't force me!
Hi Annie,
Hope you are having a great day! I wanted to ask you for some advice in dealing with our 7 year old son. We taught our kids to believe that they are the boss of themselves more in terms of bullying, etc and that they are in control of themselves. In trying to do good, it has now backfired. Our son if he does not want to do something, he will say, I don’t want to be forced to do something that I don’t want to do and you can’t force me to do stuff. However, we also want our kids to know that there are some things in life that you don’t want to do but you have to do. Right now he is in this fun hockey program and when it is time to get ready to go, not all the time, but some of the time, he will put a fight and say he is not going and then start with this whole you can’t force me, etc. We tell him, that is fine you don’t have to go on the ice, but you need to go to the arena and explain to the coach why you will not be participating. Is this the right thing to do, or are we putting too much pressure on him. I told him that has to finish this summer session. I told my husband not to put him in, to give him a break, but he registered him anyway. Now, that our son, does not want to go, do I not let him go, because he says he is being forced. I also said to our son, that he needed to do some research and pick one sport activity for the fall, otherwise he would sit and be a couch potato. He is allowed to watch tv for an hour after school, but no video games till the weekend. He is a stockier kid, and we tell him we need to keep our bodies healthy. He seems to get tired very easily, which we have had checked out medically and everything is fine. His normal bedtime is between 7 and 8pm and he gets up at 7am. However if he stays up late on a Friday night for our movie night till 10pm, he is a bear for the rest of the weekend. Now with summer being here, I want him to take the initiative and go outside and enjoy the nice weather without running through the sprinkler for 10 minutes and then deciding he has had enough to come inside and watch tv. Would you please provide us with some guidance as to how to handle this situation.
Thanks
Rosanna
Hi Rosanna
I think you already have a good idea of what you're dealing with here. You're aware that some of your previous commentary has backfired because there are some things you just have to do in life, whether you want to or n...