Chawanna Chambers tweeted this insightful thread on how she dealt with her 6-year-old daughter being rude to her. Sometimes we hold kids to way too high a standard, it’s easy to just yell at them to stop, but in the long run that won’t help their emotional maturity at all. Now obviously this won’t always work, sometimes temper tantrums can’t be stopped. But having a discussion like this with your child when you can is a great idea:

Source: Chawanna Chambers

(via: Polley Wong)