Your kid isn’t trying to make you miserable: understanding your child’s behaviour

“You are just doing this to annoy me”, “Are you trying to make me miserable?”

These are the desperate pleas I heard from a mother recently, as she grappled to keep her toddler in the shopping trolley whilst she finished her mammoth morning of shopping.

When I got in my car I thought about those words. Words that many of us have probably uttered to ourselves before or even yelled at our own child.

When we get to that point of believing our child is out to get us, out to make us miserable or is trying to to hurt us, then obviously, it is a sign that we have been pushed too far.

Because we know that no child, especially one who has only recently learnt to string words together, sets out with the intention of making their parent unhappy, stressed, angry or miserable.

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