“Dr. Becky, we don’t know where to start,” they said. “Our house is a mess. There’s so much yelling, and we’re always making empty threats because we don’t know what else to do. Our kids don’t listen to us, and it feels like we’re in an endless cycle of tantrums with our four-year-old and rudeness with our seven-year-old. Heston, our oldest, is suddenly saying he’s stupid and has no friends, and whenever we try to talk to him about it he says we don’t understand and slams his bedroom door. Izzy, our four-year-old, is hysterical every morning when we drop her at preschool. It’s so draining and
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