A mother wrote me to say that she had four children, sharing custody with her ex. She was having behavioral problems with all of them, but especially with the 12-year-old girl, Sarea, who was angry and defiant all the time. It was more than Mom could handle. Mom, of course, wanted a solution.
Parenting Training: The Essential Need to Feel Loved
On a video call, I said, “We’ll get to Sarea’s anger, but right now what you need most is to feel loved. You never have. All your life, people have wanted something from you: attention, success, physical beauty, gratitude, cooperation, accomplishment, and on and on. You’ve never felt loved for no reason, without doing something to earn it.”
She just wept and could not speak.
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