“I recently discovered Aha! Parenting and am trying hard to change things at our house, but my kids seem to be acting out more.
So I still lose it. And I feel so guilty about the past. What am I doing wrong?”Shifting your parenting approach is a big transition, and you can expect some bumps as you and your whole family learn new patterns of relating.Those bumps don’t mean that you’re doing anything wrong, even if your child sometimes “acts worse” than she ever would have before.
In fact, what’s happening when your child acts out is that she’s showing you feelings from the past, from those times when you yelled or punished, and she felt so alone and misunderstood.
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