Child Training Marathon Revisited...
3-Year-Old Screamer
“My three-year-old daughter often screams when she is aggravated by the other children or when she doesn’t get her way. Is this normal? Will she grow out of it?”
Handling Sibling Aggression
A reader asks, “How do you handle sibling aggression, fighting over toys, etc.? How do they learn to handle situations and not run to mama? How does mama learn not to intervene?”
Potty Training Answered
In our book, To Train Up A Child, the chapter that has produced the most inquires is the one on potty training infants.
Twinkie Twerp
My wife was standing in a yard talking to the young mother of a seven-year-old boy and two girls. The girls are fairly obedient and even tempered. But the boy…
Emotional Manipulators
What irritates the mother about her child is actually a developing character flaw in the child.
Why? But Why?
When a child is told to do something that he doesn’t want to do, he will often ask, “Why?” It most cases the question is not prompted by a spirit of cooperative inquiry — it is prompted by a spirit of rebellion.






