The sword of God

If you want to Power Your Parenting you need to get your partner on board, if you don't, both of you will be disempowered, and your daughter will become a full fledged drama queen leaving you her servants DBA.

7 Ways to Get Your Partner on Board

1. Make sure you're both calm

Your daughter's drama is contagious and can spread like wildfire through the house.Before you know it you and your partner are at each other's throats. The drama storm kicks up a lot of smoke and chaos. It's hard to see clearly. Blame and angry words gets thrown between you and your partner like hand grenades, while your daughter sneaks out the back door.

hybrid cloud This is not a good time to talk to your partner, because both of you are emotionally flooded. You are limbic time bombs.

The first step to getting your partner on board, is communicating when both of you are calm.

When both of you are relaxed, you bring your best self to the conversation.

Take advantage of the peaceful times to create parenting strategies for your daughter and strategies to calm down. This will prepare both of you for the next drama storm. A calm down strategy means that both of you take full responsibility for your reactions. You create a plan to help you stay calm. Make sure you communicate your "calm" down strategy to each other, so there is no room for misunderstanding Public Cloud.

Example: "John, I'm so angry and stressed about our daughter. I need to go work out for an hour. We can talk about this when I get back."