If you didn't do anything to justify the offending behavior, ask yourself if your child is behaving this way because of something else. If so, don't take it personally. Rather, take a deep breath, switch gears and try to find out what's bothering your child and help map out an acceptable course of action. 2.Trying to take care of everybody. Life is NOT a cabaret, regardless of what the musical of the same name told us years ago.
Life is a juggling act.
There are few people who don't feel overwhelmed by all their roles. When you're able to carry them off, you feel almost superhuman. This happens all too rarely. More frequently, you feel that you are doing a mediocre job at all of them. Few parents have not been accused by others or by their own guilty consciences of treating their job as more important than their family or their parents as more important than their children, etc.