Eating, Sleeping and Getting Up is psychologist Carolyn Crowder’s answer to how parents can stop the three most frustrating, sometimes daily battles, we have with our children. She starts off by answering the age-old question, “Why do children misbehave?” According to Crowder, children misbehave because they have “become discouraged about finding a positive place of significance within the family. Each child needs to feel he or she is an important and useful member of the family. Because this desire for significance is so important, children work to achieve his goal through either negative or positive means.” The first duty of … Continue reading →