Disrespect & Disobedience
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Teenager Disrespectful to Me
Asked by M.K. from Milwaukee
on March 14, 2010
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My 14 year old daughter is very disrespectful to me and not understanding why. Don't know if disrespectful is the word I am looking for however she just doesn't want ...
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- Oh Honey...welcome to the club of teenage mothers!!! First of all, don't expect your daughter to process things and react to things in a "reasonable adult way"...she i...
- well i went thru it twice...my daughter was much harder than my son..you just have to stay at it-hormone changes in girls are much worse than boys-have her checked by ...
- I don't know why people consider disrespectful behavior from teenagers "normal". It can be handled and controlled. I know a bunch of teenagers who are not disrespectfu...
Disrespectful Behavior
Asked by C.T. from Fayetteville
on August 20, 2010
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Ok, I have 5 year old daughter who just started kindergarten. She is very disrespectful-I don't think that is her intention-we've gone over it with her time and time a...
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- Good work being firm on this now, but it may have gotten a little out of hand before you got super serious. Also, every child has a consequence they hate the MOST, and...
- It sounds like you are on the right track with consisten behavior, rewarding good behavior, etc. And as a teacher, I can say "thank you" for wanting to get a handle o...
- At this point it may be time for something extreme! Take away all of her toys. I mean all of them! Each day that she comes home with a good report, she can go in and p...
Disrespectful Behavior
Asked by J.C. from Dallas
on February 28, 2010
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My 7 1/2 year old has become very disrespectful recently. It is like a switch was flipped about three months ago. He only seems to have trouble following the rules ...
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- It is time to talk to his teacher to get a handle on his outside influences. I am not saying that is his only problem but it will help you know if the new friend is a...
- I read an article about nagging and stopping the habit of nagging your kids to do stuff that suggested that you give the kids the control of when they do the chore. S...
- Just some commiseration... my ds7 is SO right there. In a lot of ways we're revisiting the terrible 3's all over again. 1st verse! Same as the first! ALL our rules we...
Disciplining Disrespectful Children
Asked by S.H. from Fort Smith
on January 3, 2011
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What discipline steps do you take when your children are disrespectful to you or any other family member?
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- It depends on their age and what they did. Toddlers/young elem schoolers, time out or small grounding and then an apology and we explain to them the importance of resp...
- Teaching children to say the phrase "I'm sorry" serves them well throughout their lives.
- For me it depends on the disrespect and the age. My mother expects a ton of respect from my daughter (5) and gives none in return. To my mom, not giving a hug and ki...
Disrespectful 8 Yr Old
Asked by C.H. from Little Rock
on September 10, 2010
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I have a daughter that is 8yrs and has become increasingly disrespectful. She started out talking back and has now started nudging me out of the way or hitting me lig...
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- have you ever heard of a spanking? That always works. I know now a lot of parents are like we don't want to hit our children. What the hell do you think people back in...
- why don't you try diferent tekniques, like everytime she is good reward her with something small and shel know that she will get something for for being good. or try d...
- Dear C.H. -- I am so glad your older daughters did not act this way. It sounds like you have raised two well-behaved, caring, compassionate young women. Congra...
Disrespectful Mother in Law
Asked by B.C. from Bangor
on July 23, 2011
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So I have one of the most disrespectful controlling mother in laws in the world and this November I will be dealing with her for 5 years. AHHHH sometimes I just want t...
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- I would just decide to stop asking her advice and ignore her when she makes her remarks. She is probably just very opinionated and I doubt you are going to be able to...
- This reminds me of that show Everyone Loves Raymond.. sorry but this is so typical. We love our children and our children are part of you and your husband. so underst...
- What if you responded with something like 'I was a bit concerned about that too (even if you weren't) so I spoke with dr and was reassured that baby is growing normall...
Need Help with Disrespectful Teen
Asked by L.K. from Austin
on January 23, 2011
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What to do with disrespectful teen? I have a 15 year old DD that I don’t know what to do about when it comes to her disrespect of me and her mouth. She is a good kid...
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- Do you mind if I laugh while reading this? This sounds like a typical parent-teen interaction. It's happening every day with almost every parent of teens. Take ...
- its a phase, that thankfully passes by around 17...
- It seems that most of the responses only told you that "this is normal teen behavior" or "if this is all she is doing you are lucky", I personally say you need to reel...
Rude and Disrespectful?
Asked by M.P. from Portland
on August 5, 2011
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A couple of friends and I are going away for a girls weekend very soon. When we spoke last to discuss the details of our getaway, one of them told me that two of her f...
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- I don't know if I'd call it disrespectful. I've come to learn over the years that there are two schools of thought on "get togethers". One type of person (like me) l...
- I would be hard pressed to think of this as rude or disrespectful. Your friend has different boundaries than you, and doesn't realize that something that she finds app...
- Cancel. I had a friend we met at a hotel for a family weekend. She and her husband kept inviting total strangers to join us. We were hurt and could not believe they ...
A Little Disrespectful
Asked by L.B. from Huntington
on January 16, 2007
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I am a single mother with a 7 year old son. His father and I divorced when he was very young, but still is very active in my child's life. Recently, my son has start...
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- Hmmm...sounds like a child to me...oh..he is a child...maybe that's why...LOL. Ok, let me be serious for a second. Kids these days are growing up much faster than we d...
- I have an 8 year old son, he is going through a lot of the same things, and he's picked up a lot of that behavior from our neighbor's kid who is 7 and really acting ou...
- My son (10) started this behavior just this year. I also do not condone it and punish as needed. In fact, one of his punishments was to write one of my friends a l...
Disrespectful Daughter
Asked by L.A. from Boston
on April 17, 2011
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My 20 year old daughter attends a local university and lives at home. She treats and speaks me disrespectfully and I don't know how to make her understand that this i...
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- My father always told us that we were welcome to live at home for as long we wanted *but* we had to live by house rules. As we got older rules changed - i.e. curfews b...
- Show her the door w/ a suitcase of her clothes.
- Have you asked her what her problem is? Ask her why she thinks she has a right to yell at you? Ask her if she screams at her friends or allows them to scream at...
