Recent content by CycleDude66

Thanks for all the helpful information. My wife and I have written out a list of consequences for behavior (boundaries) and will calmly and consistently begin enforcing them. For example, if she doesn't come home from her friends house when told, she loses two days of hanging out with her friend...

Yes, she is the biological mom.

We haven't had any major changes, other than moving across town during the summer. In doing this she actually is right across the street from one of her classmates. The first real episode was in September. That was right when we moved across town, but she continued to have her own room and...

Good ideas! I work a lot and my wife stays at home with our 2 year old all day, then runs our girls to their activities after school. So by the the time I get home, everyone is pretty stressed. We do some things together, but I can see where being more intentional about spending time with...

In the past few months our previously sweet and compliant 10 year old daughter has become unruly, defiant, and belligerent. Whenever we ask her to do the simplest of things (clean her room, do her home work, come home from a friend's house), she completely loses it. She will begin screaming and...

We have three kids (14, almost 11, and 2) and I have lots of questions about parenting :)