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• Your list may look like the one we created in our group. Old Negative Labels        New Exciting Labels demanding        holds high standards monster madman        creative destructive        passionately curious defiant        principled unpredictable        flexible whiny        expressive rude        honest explosive        passionate argumentat...
• emphasize that this is the beginning of the conversation—not the ending. Ultimately, you will teach your child the skills to be flexible and to be a creative problem solver. But for those lessons to be heard and processed, your child has to be calm. That won’t be the case if you are upset, thinking she is being stubborn or difficult.
• Leo always wants to climb into his car seat by himself. If I try to assist him, he throws a fit. I thought he was being stubborn and uncooperative. But when I saw him as independent and goal oriented, I realized those were good qualities.