This is Ask Lisa, a podcast to help people understand the psychology of parenting, now in the midst of a pandemic.

Psychologist Dr. Lisa DeMore, author of two New York Times best-selling parenting books, takes your questions.

And I'm co-host, Rina Ninan, a journalist and mom of two.

Some of what we talk about comes from raising children ourselves. Most of the time, I'll be getting

answers to your parenting questions. So send your questions to ask Lisa at dr.lisademore.com.

In this episode, we talk about what to do when kids don't listen.

Advice for three-agers to teenagers.

What can I tell you?

So much uncertainty in the air.

Man, it is unsettling.

It is hard to feel like you can find your feet. You know, I just got me thinking,

like, what can I control when everything feels out of my control, right? And it's like my home base,

right? What can I control my home base, Lisa? I call it my two foot world. I'm like, let me just see

if I can manage my two foot world. That's often where I'm

going when the headlines have me just dizzy, dizzy feeling. Yeah, but I feel like the kids

are, they're so perceptive. They pick up on it. And sometimes, I'm hearing from a lot of parents.

Kids are just acting out. It's hard to kind of rein in. There's a lot of frustration with

school, whether remote or back in, masks, you know, the whole thing. And we got this letter from this mom,

you know, talking about kids in chaos. And this mom says here, hi, Lisa, we're really struggling with

our young children four and six listening to us. It sounds silly because they're so young,

but my husband and I are both at a breaking point.

Luckily, our marriage is doing well, but we feel like we're at war with our daughters. We try not to

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