Recognize When Your Child is Making Progress

Optimism can be difficult when you’re a parent in the middle of a challenging time period with your kid. When your kid has been smacking everybody who comes within a 2 foot radius or stripping off their clothes in public whenever you tell them no, hearing “but look at how far they’ve come” makes you want to roll your eyes. But even though they haven’t stopped the behaviour completely, there’s still plenty of reason to recognize progress. Even small, incremental steps. And it’s not just to make you as the parent feel a little less miserable (although, that’s a solid reason to celebrate). 🎉 There are actual reasons to find and celebrate mini milestones and recognize moments of progress in your child’s behaviour, even if they’re not quite at the goal yet. In this week’s episode I’m going to share 2 big reasons to recognize progress in your child’s behaviour that parents tend to lose sight of when you’re in the thick of things. I’m also going to dig a little bit into a solution for the frustrated parents when progress isn’t being made as quickly as they’d like it to. Especially when it comes to behaviours like hitting or kicking. After all, it’s easier said than done to focus on the positive changes made when they’re still being aggressive and I don’t want to just brush over that, so we’re gonna chat about it! Grab the Scripts to Manage the Top 10 Crazy-Making Behaviours: prnt.link/scripts Watch the video recording here: Join the Parenting Posse: prnt.link/group the Mudroom is recorded live every Wednesday at 1:30pm ET/ 12:30pm CT/ 10:30am PT on Facebook: facebook.com/arfamilyservices