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289 When Your 4-Year-Old is Non-Verbal and Resistant
Hey Friends~
You ask your child to do something simple, and you are confident they understand, but everything becomes a struggle. Is it stubbornness? Frustration? Something else?
Calling it “stubbornness” doesn’t tell you what to do next. It sort of puts up a diagnosis with a stop sign!
We have lots of words for stubbornness: resistance, refusal, headstrong, and some not-so-nice expressions as well.
We get frustrated and carry a sense of helplessness because we don’t know how to change it. And the result? We get mad! Mad at our kids and mad at ourselves. I know. I have been there.
When a…
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