Why You Shouldnt Try To Fix Your Childs Problems, Oprahs Lifeclass, Oprah Winfrey Network

Tune in Sundays at 9, 8c on OWN. When Janice s 12yearold daughter was packing for a school trip, she began having a stressrelated meltdown in front of her mother. She was crying on my bed, Janice says. She started pulling out all the Fighting her maternal instinct to try and fix her daughter s problems and using logic to calm the girl down, Janice did something totally different: Nothing. I just kept staying with it, she says. It was actually the easiest thing that I didjust connecting