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If you have a highly emotional child, you know the struggle of trying to address their

behavior, only to have them throw everything right back in your face.

The conflict just goes on and on. I'm John Fuller along with

Danny Huerta and today we're hearing more from a conversation that Jim

Daly and I had with Aaron McPherson and her mom, Alan Schochnick.

They talked about dealing with those highly passionate children.

Here's Jim.

Alan, let me ask you this, as an educator, I mean, I think the joke for Gene and I

is, how many times have we said to say please and thank you

I mean I think we as parents may say that 10,000 times

right John?

It sure feels like it. I'm not kidding and yet you've got to be persistent and not let emotions get into it.

That's a, you know, a small example, but you might be trying to train them in different ways.

Courtesy, the appropriate way to treat people, and sometimes as a young child it just

doesn't happen immediately or it happens every fifth time you mention it

how do you maintain that patience Alan Alan, where you're going to say with a good parental voice,

you know a little Johnny, I've told you a few times, you need to say please and thank you.

Those are the magic words, you know, whatever you're going to say. But how do you keep that parental attitude that this is in the

moment it's going to take probably 10,000 more times to go down this path before they

get it? One of the things I really recommend that parents do is not make the correction right at the moment

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