My friends all use timeouts and consequences charts but I read that these damage the parent-child relationship, so I try connection-based discipline but my kids seem more defiant than their kids.
More people experience this than they realize.
Commitment to relationship-based approaches wavers when traditional methods appear to produce better immediate results.
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