I doooooooon't waaaaaant toooooo.I waaaant another cookieeeeeee.
Whyyyyyy can't I? Pleeeeeaase?
Whining.
It's one of those parental triggers which can seem impossibly difficult to deal with because of how quickly it activates our stress response.
Whining can get your adrenaline pumping, and suddenly your innate ability to cope dwindles with every shrieky demand and objection to your limits and attempts to empathize.
Add a bit of logic, debate, legitimizing, or trying to rationalize away the hysterics, and you'll drive yourself directly to the Summer Whine Fest. So what do you do?
