How to Parent the Troubled Kid in Your Stepfamily

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4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Combatting with a child in your stepfamily? Psychologist Danny Huerta offers ideas for dealing with disrespectful, distrustful, reactive, or troubled kids.

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0:00.0	So I give parents permission to have five time outs.
0:03.2	For a five minute, 10 minute, 30 second time out,
0:06.9	it's a reset of your mind.
0:08.6	You're pressing the reset button because you're the adult
0:11.9	and they're going to rely on you managing those emotions.
0:14.8	Welcome to Family Life Today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most.
0:30.6	I'm Ann Wilson.
0:31.6	And I'm Dave Wilson and you can find us at familylifetoday.com or on our Family Life app.
0:38.0	This is Family Life.
0:39.6	Today.
0:51.6	So think about when our kids were younger and in the house and you got upset with them.
0:55.8	Which happened?
0:56.7	Yeah, it happened for both of us.
0:58.0	Right.
0:58.5	How'd you calm down?
0:59.3	What'd you do?
0:59.8	Oh, I would say to them, like, you need to go in the other room.
1:03.8	I remember here, I remember this and I have a time out.
1:06.8	And I would have to go in the opposite room.
1:09.6	Because I had to calm down.
1:10.7	Do you remember that?
1:11.7	Oh, yeah.
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