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77Treating Your Child's Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
What is Oppositional Defiant Disorder? Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) is one of the three disruptive behavior disorders listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, which is...
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78How to Make Your Child More Responsible
We all want our children to grow into dependable caring adults. Here are seven ways to make this goal a reality. As soon as your child is old enough to understand, he can begin to help. It might be...
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70Getting Your Teen Out of Bed
Teenagers like to sleep late and if you have a defiant teen, it may become a daily chore to get him out of bed. Let’s take for example, a child who has to be to school at eight o’clock in the morning. ...
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68ADHD Medication and the Risk of Future Drug Abuse
A lot of parents are concerned that giving their children medication for ADHD will get their children used to the idea of taking drugs and will lead to future drug abuse. When you consider that ADHD teens are...
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71Parenting Difficult Children: You Are A Good Parent
This article is about you – the parent. Many parents of ODD, ADHD, or otherwise difficult defiant children and/or teens, feel very ineffective as parents. I want to dispel some of the bad feelings that...
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69Your Child’s Bad Behavior: Is it ODD?
This tip focuses on what a parent can do when their child starts to create a scene in public. Sometimes this happens so often that the parent often wonders if their child has oppositional defiant...
0 comments70Arguing with a Defiant Child: How to Stay in Control
So this is what it might take place: Teen: I want to go to Colorado skiing for Christmas. I’m not going to spend my Christmas hold up in this house. I want to go. I know I’ll have more fun there.Parent:...
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69Parenting Your Teens Difficult Behavior
I receive many letters from parents about how to help discipline their teenagers. Here is one letter I received recently: "My fourteen year old son has a serious behavior problem and he is willing to...
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74Eliminate Arguments: What To Do When Your Teen Talks Back
When your child talks back, it ruins your authority, destroys respect, frustrates you, makes you feel helpless, and makes you feel like you do not know what to do. Even when you get your way, just the...
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65Parenting Defiant Teens: The Problem with Using Rewards
How many times have you heard to use a reward to motivate your teen? The idea is simple - reward good behavior and the good behavior will occur more often. The only problem is that when you're dealing with an...
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