Hey, y'all welcome back to this bonus episode of the Don't Mom Alone podcast.

My name is Heather McFadian.

I am your host and this is a 10 minute clip from an interview I did with Dr. Scott Turenski.

We aired the rest of his episode earlier this week.

So if you haven't heard that, go listen there first.

But this is a chunk where I asked him, how do you train the heart of a child who's more

oppositional in nature and how do you work as a family when one child tends to disrupt

the peace and the vibe of the entire family?

I think what he has this year is super helpful and at the end I'll let you know how we applied

one of the tools he shared.

All right, here we go.

I want to play out one more scenario selfishly.

I want to know how would a parent handle a child who maybe isn't officially oppositional

defiant disorder but exhibit some of those behaviors.

How do you help them surrender to authority be cooperative if their bent is to do the

opposite?

All right, so can we imagine this child might be 10 to 12 years old something like that?

Yes, so we can imagine that.

Okay, so keep in mind, there are biological challenges that children face.

Those include things like attention deficit disorder, attention deficit disorder, autism,

bipolar, those kinds of things.

Those are biological.

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