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Feb 2020
22m 38s

Motivating the Strong-Willed Child

KIRK MARTIN
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Motivating the Strong-Willed Child

You have a child who wants to do things the hard way, creates power struggles over everything, and wants to do things on his own terms. Your child doesn’t care about consequences and traditional discipline methods don’t work. So how can you get these kids to change?

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