What can a parent do!

dont loose heart dear!kids do give a hard time ....handle them softly and at the same time dont be very soft....punish them or scold them if you find they do something wrong...so that they learn from it.and ya scold them just to make them realize that they did something wrong ,dont get too harsh !try to keep your attitude normal because kids observe their parents a lot and learn from them...give them proper time ,play with them...keep a check on their moves..but dont let them know!all the best

I really don't have this problem with my kids. I guess I'm lucky in that field! :-) But When my kids do something wrong, like my oldest brought home a F on her progress report(she's an A B student) I took her laptop away from her. I told her that until she brings it up to atleast a C she couldn't have it back. Four weeks went by before report cards came home. My daughter was in misery. The laptop stayed in her room, she knew she wasn't allowed to touch it or I would either throw it away or give it to someone. And she knew I would do it too, so she didn't touch. At first it didn't bother her, but after a week, all I heard was, "Mom I'm working real hard to bring my grade up. I know I have atleast a C. Can I have my laptop back?" I told her I knew she was working hard on bring the grade up but until I got the report card showing my a C or better. No laptop. Needless to say, the day the report cards came home, she called me from the bus to let me know she got a C. So far, she's working on bring it up to a B or A. And I haven't told her she had to. Sometimes taking away something they enjoy the most makes a big difference.

i used to think my daughter was a perfect angel, i dont recall ever having to punish her when i did i would just snap my fingers towards the wall and she would quieytly head to the corner. we moved in with my mother over a year ago....mistake on that part (concerning my daughter) because she is only 5, at home there is my 15 year old sister and my 16 year old brother, my daughter now wants to dress and act like a teenager, she sees or hears my siblings disrespect my mother and suddednly she thinks its okay to do the same to me, ill ask her nicely to pick up her toys and she'll come back with do it yourself, or "grr your giving me a headache" why do you like making me mad! and stomp off with her hands on her hips. At first i thought it was cute, but it is very disrespectful! im not saying my brother and sister are bad teens there teens they act that way they have there moments. but they have to learn the fact that whatecer they do and think is allright she will do the same. i think alot of the behavorl issues kids have today have to do with the people that they are around, if a child hears a friend disrepect there parent they will do the same.

at some ages its a normal stage children will go through and thats usually the teen years and the toddler years 2-6. now its known that children will live what they learn, and if this isnt the case because you raise them right! then maybe they might need a lil spankin, if not this thenmaybe a mother and father figure is what is missing intheir life . it dosne have to necessarily be your fault so dont fault yourself