From the moment they won’t arrive on their due dates and follow the “birth plan,” through those toddler tantrums, willful tween arguments, and on to teenage drama, our children are going to fight to get their way. And we are going to fight back. After all, we don’t want to raise them to be spoiled, irresponsible, or unsafe, right? Still, experts tell us that with some of these battles, it’s OK to “lose” to our kids. (And really, we’ll all be winning.)
“If you constantly feel like you are fighting with your child first you should adjust your own mindset: Conceding is not losing,” Kimberly Delude, a speach pathologist and author of the book