Dr. Lindsay Gibson

And, you know, that's, again, supposed to be funny.

But it's not funny when you understand what it is that scared the child.

Yeah, it would be don't reinforce behavior you don't want to see a lot of.

Right.

So do you want your daughter to scold you like that?

Do you want her to treat her friends like that?

Is that cute?

Do you like it?

And then if he said, well, no, not really, but what else can I do?

I might ask him, if you treat it very seriously and ask her, honey, you seem to be really upset with me.

Tell me what's really wrong.

In other words, you don't give a reward by laughing at the behavior, but you also remember the behaviors of communication.

So you ask her about her intent.

They're all challenging.

Children are going through periods of equilibrium and disequilibrium.

It's like a, this is from the Gazelle Institute.

They come together.

They're delightful little creatures.

They stabilize.

Then they undergo another period of disequilibrium where they kind of fall apart, become difficult, become very emotional.