Has the habit of power struggles taken over your life?

If you are anything like me, you can go long stretches of time living the same day over and over and over again with very little thought or consciousness to it. We wake up, pour our coffee and sit down for a moment of silence. Then we make the lunches, take the kids to school and so on and so forth and before you know it a week or even a month has gone by and your thinking “ is it really almost April?” Wow how did that happen?

We live a huge amount of our lives on autopilot. Living in the habits that we have created which are generally dictated by the beliefs we subconsciously or consciously.

The relationship you have with your kids is a habit as well. So good or bad you have gotten into the habit of this back and forth exchange.

Power struggles over almost anything is something I see most often that parents complain about. Chores, video games, bedtime, being nice to a sibling, using their manners. Screaming in public. Whatever it is that is making you bat shit crazy and making you feel like why the hell do I have to keep fighting about this same thing with you every damn day.

I talk to moms daily who are fed up. They don't want to argue over the same thing anymore. Yet they continue to do it because they haven’t addressed their part in the situation.

You have created a habit of power struggle. You have a belief that things need to be done a certain way, at a certain time or that behaviors need to be xyz. But is that…