be more patient with my daughter

It’s a really, really good book. It’s a NY Times bestseller, and it’s for care of children 5 and under. I highly reccomend it.

My daughter is very smart, which is why I don’t understand how she can’t see the importance of doing things that we talk about every day (brushing teeth correctly, not leaving towels on the floor, picking things up after herself, etc, etc.)...I feel your pain. I am thinking that I need to use a quote I recently heard: ‘Seek to understand, and you will be understood.’

I think buying a book on parenting will help me with this. Anyone have any recommendations??

I’m a single mother of one, and she is actually more like a 2 in 1. I need lots of patience with her, and after a long day of working, I sometimes as with most parents lose my patience with her. Simple things become a mission impossible. For example, brushing her teeth, we do it every day, but she has to fight it at all costs. Why? Just do it, get it done and then it’s all over.

It’s so frustrating. Putting her to bed is a task too. She has to make me chase her around the whole house to put her pj’s on. It can never be simple. I just feel like nothing is working when it comes to disciplining her. I’m frazzled.