Scripts For Tweens: How To Handle Back-Talk
What to say when your tween is disrespectful, talks back, or rolls their eyes. How to respond without losing the rela
This Week’s Scenario
You asked your tween to do something simple. Put their plate in the sink. Get off the iPad. Get ready for salah. And the response was an eye roll, a muttered comment under the breath, or a tone that you would never have dared use with your own parents. The smart mouth has arrived. And your instinct is to punish the attitude immediately, take the iPad, raise your voice, put them in their place. But the attitude is a symptom. The teaching opportunity is underneath it.
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When Your Tween Talks Back: Discipline That Teaches
In this episode:
1. The most common flash point at this age,
2. What tweens are really testing when they protest and push back,
3. How to hold the line without escalating.
Scripts
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