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You know a great way to make your child lose their temper?

Start to lose yours.

Have you noticed that when your tone gets more severe and you feel the anger rising internally,

your child sometimes mimics you?

I saw that my son and I would feed off each other.

He'd get angry while hearing me trying to control my temper.

But my job to teach, become and raise a child who can be a successful adult in the world

is not about arguing.

When your child's angry or upset, they're trying to communicate something to you.

Maybe they're frustrated, flustered, tired, hungry.

They're not trying to annoy you.

Trying to work things out in their little heads.

So how do you respond?

Well, this excerpt from NPR on Intuit Traditions is fascinating.

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