{"id":7237,"date":"2017-10-09T16:13:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T16:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/3-errors-parents-make-when-their-kids-bully-them\/"},"modified":"2017-10-09T16:13:34","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T16:13:34","slug":"3-errors-parents-make-when-their-kids-bully-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/3-errors-parents-make-when-their-kids-bully-them\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Errors Parents Make When Their Kids Bully Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"getty embed image\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\">\n<div>\n<p>It\u2019s the end of a long day. You\u2019ve just arrived home from work, completely exhausted. You flip on the TV, collapse on the sofa, and catch the end of your favorite program. You savor this quiet time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Just then, your child begins to whine and carry on. He wants a slice of chocolate cake before dinner. You tell him no.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou promised!\u201d he demands. \u201cYou said I could have it when you got home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You tell him to wait until after dinner. He stands in front of the TV. \u201cI want it now. Right now!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You close your eyes and take a breath. Maybe you count to 10. But your kid turns up the volume: \u201cYou lied to me! I waited all day for you! I hate you! You\u2019re stupid!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Okay, freeze-frame: This\u00a0<em>testing<\/em>\u00a0moment has just tipped into a\u00a0<em><a class=\"inline-links topic-link\" title=\"Psychology Today looks at bullying\" href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/basics\/bullying\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bullying<\/a><\/em>\u00a0moment. You\u2019re being verbally assaulted and degraded by your own child.<\/p>\n<p><em>What do you do?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/when-kids-call-the-shots\/201603\/3-errors-parents-make-when-their-kids-bully-them?utm_source=FacebookPost&amp;utm_medium=FBPost&amp;utm_campaign=FBPost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to read more from PsychologyToday.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the end of a long day. You\u2019ve just arrived home from work, completely exhausted. You flip on the TV, collapse on the sofa, and catch the end of your favorite program. You savor this quiet time. Just then, your child begins to whine and carry on. He wants a slice of chocolate cake before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[148,139,140],"tags":[1723,144,1724,1725,1726,36,1727,1728],"age":[],"content-type":[],"persona":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7237"},{"taxonomy":"age","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/age?post=7237"},{"taxonomy":"content-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-type?post=7237"},{"taxonomy":"persona","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/persona?post=7237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}