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Does Your Child Give You the Silent Treatment?
6 Rules for Getting Kids to Talk
by James Lehman, MSW

Does Your Child Give You the Silent Treatment? 6 Rules for Getting Kids to TalkKids use the silent treatment as a way to freeze you out, to get you to leave them alone, and to push your buttons. What most parents don’t realize is that under the surface, something else is going on: the silent treatment is giving your child a feeling of power and control over you.

What's behind your child’s thinking? Usually they’re angry or embarrassed. In fact, often you'll get the silent treatment when your child has done something wrong and knows it. They use the silent treatment to blackmail you emotionally. The hard part for parents is that the more you make an issue of it or act like it's painful or annoying to you, the more your child is going to use it to get to you.


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July Articles:
"My Kid Will Never Change."
When You've Hit a Wall with Your Child's Behavior
by James Lehman, MSW

Trapped in a Screaming Match with Your Child?
5 Ways to Get Out Now
by James Lehman, MSW

The Obnoxious Child: When an "Audience" Makes Behavior Worse
by James Lehman, MSW
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blog Is Your Dawdling Child Making You Crazy? by Elisabeth Wilkins, EP Editor

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Parent Blogger 3 Kids, 5 Schedules and One Frazzled Mom: How I Lost -- Then Regained -- My Sanity This Summer!
by Annita Woz

blog Ask PSL: What to Do When Your Child Says "I Don’t Care" by Tina Wakefield

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