Why you should not reason with an unreasonable child

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One of the most important rules of child nature is that they can be completely unreasonable, and then blame you for not automatically seeing it their way. Don’t take it personally. Set rules, feel guilty about it if you must, but take a stand and don’t budge from what you know to be right for your child.

“One of us has to go,” was Jane’s comment recently as she and her 16-year-old daughter, Stacey, settled into our church office. As a single mother, she enjoyed the ability to call the shots with her child, but she definitely didn’t like a growing altercation with her Stacey.