What Happened When I Went One Week Without Correcting My Kid’s Behavior

Here’s what I learned. [Scary Mommy](%2F%2Fscarymommy.com%2F%3Futm_campaign=48910%26utm_medium=scaryMommyDailyV2%26utm_source=newsletter%26utm_session=33bffe7e-9403-4594-a37e-5a45d2b75c10/1/01000184eea8515f-0085e9c9-c322-4bf9-a7c6-0fbdf74ee180-000000/uUYFdgB-z61ZcJ3orQ_vy-F16KI=299) Dec 07, 2022 %2F%2Fwww.scarymommy.com%2Fparenting%2Fone-week-without-correcting-kid%3Futm_campaign=48910%26utm_medium=scaryMommyDailyV2%26utm_source=newsletter%26utm_session=33bffe7e-9403-4594-a37e-5a45d2b75c10/1/01000184eea8515f-0085e9c9-c322-4bf9-a7c6-0fbdf74ee180-000000/Uxj5q4XndBWCJUdxdRUC31H9aXk=299 [I Went One Week Without Correcting My Kid’s Behavior. Here’s What I Learned.](%2F%2Fwww.scarymommy.com%2Fparenting%2Fone-week-without-correcting-kid%3Futm_campaign=48910%26utm_medium=scaryMommyDailyV2%26utm_source=newsletter%26utm_session=33bffe7e-9403-4594-a37e-5a45d2b75c10/2/01000184eea8515f-0085e9c9-c322-4bf9-a7c6-0fbdf74ee180-000000/J4RC8qQARxF9Th3lIAFDdsmtxGo=299) “I don’t harangue or criticize or shame my 5-year-old son. (How could I? He’s so loveable and great!) It’s more that I nudge. And when nudging doesn’t work, because he no longer hears it — that’s the problem with nudges; you grow immune to them — I flip my lid and feel like a monster,” admits Katie Arnold-Ratliff today. So she did a little experiment: “I would shut up for a while and just let the kid be.” Obviously, you have to know how that turned out, right? 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