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I'm 11. Kelsey, welcome to the program. Hi. Hi. Hi, Dr. Laura. What is happening? I was calling because I'm two year old.

Two and a half year old is just she says no to me all the time and won't anything if I give her two options or anything I will say, oh, do you want this or this and she'll just say no to both her look at the clouds and she'll say no.

Just don't share what you stop giving her commands. If it's time to eat put her down and put food in front of her. She doesn't eat it. She'll be hungry later.

If she doesn't look up at the clouds, you say, oh, this is so pretty. Don't tell her to look up because she's already in an arm wrestle for power with you. So, oh my god, this guy is pretty. That'll make her look up but telling her to do something puts it back into the power struggle.

So no more struggles. She doesn't have options. If I just put things down and let her have them.

No, ma'am, you do this until she's five. It'll be over with. Okay, this is not going to be forever.

She's not going to always behave like this. But if you keep giving her options and if you keep the arm wrestle with her, you're going to prolong it.

So just no option. What about like getting in the car seat?

You pick her up and put her in the car seat. Put her in the car seat.

And if she cries, just let her cry. Let her cry.

Give her a kiss on the cheek and say we're going off to blah, blah, blah place.

Be the parent. She's fighting for power and control with you. The reason kids do this more with mothers than fathers is mothers are always trying to.

I don't want her to cry. I want her to feel good. I want her to look pretty. I want her to be nice. Where fathers go. Put it down now.

That's how most dads are. That's it. Done.

So then the mother's call me and go, why does she listen to him? Because he does an arm wrestle.

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