How To Discipline A Kid Who Hurts Animals
Pleeeeeease Cease pain the cat!
Don't squeeze the dog!
Yep! I've been there - the HITTING stage.
Her friends, me, the domestic dog - my girl has hit, squeezed, and scratched them all.
I put on my detective goggles more than a few times when she was immature to determine the cause and the all-time solution for this - developmentally typical - but uncivilized beliefs.
Sometimes it was developmental - she was just as well young to "remember" the rule or stop her impulses.
Sometimes information technology was stress - she was holding a backlog of emotions and fears virtually the changes that were happening.
Sometimes it was sensory - she needed to release the overwhelming tension in her body.
And, sometimes information technology was relational - she needed me to accept an honest look at my own behavior and and so choose to reconnect with her emotionally .
Seeing children being cruel to animals can set off worried panic, but try not to be too alarmed. It's very typical for young children to display impulsive behavior when curious, playful, angry or frustrated.
The good news? It's unremarkably a passing phase - as long every bit information technology is met with consistency and kindness.
Children need to be able to rely on your responses and experience a sense of safety to willingly receive our influence.
Using fear or castigating forcefulness will likely take the opposite consequence of what you lot are hoping for because information technology intensifies the emotions yous are trying to calm.
I know how like shooting fish in a barrel it is to become frustrated with a child who won't end sitting on the true cat or grabbing the canis familiaris'southward tail.
Why do you lot take to say it 5 times?
If you can remember your long-term goals for your child and the short-term nature of this phase, your power to self-regulate your reactions volition abound, an d it will exist your greatest asset.
In this TEACHable Moments video, I've got four tips for keeping the kids - AND pets - safe.
Check it out and see what "design interrupt" our family used to change our emotional state and shift into connexion.
If you can...
- Know what you need.
- Have preventative measures.
- Exist interested in your child'south experience
- Notice the "growth opportunity."
- you will discover yourself non only surviving but THRIVING during this trying stage of childhood!
So tell me, does your child have pet-aggression issues? What have you lot done to help him calm the emotional storm?
Leave me a comment below and share your story because yous never know - your idea might but be the spark of modify someone else was looking for.
Thank you and then much for watching and remember, conscious - not perfect!
Talk soon,
Lori
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Source: https://mamablog.teach-through-love.com/2013/07/what-to-do-when-your-child-wont-stop-hitting-the-cat.html
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