Strategies for Coping with Your Spirited Child

If you aren’t sure what’s normal, consult a good parenting book (see Resources) or check with someone experienced with young children’s behavior, such as a preschool teacher or a pediatrician. Or consider seeing a mental health professional.

“Usually,” Turecki points out, “an educated, enlightened parental guidance approach will improve the situation, and often in just a few sessions.”

Barring serious disorders, what you usually have is a little person with a personality in riotous bloom. Between the two poles of “my kid is just like everyone else” and “he’s so different that we can’t cope” lies the happy medium of a unique, ultimately lovable child.

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