When trying to get good behavior from a child, parents use two methods: encouragement and punishment. The first should always be preferable to the second. Punishments in general should be treated with extreme caution, and most importantly, they should not cause resentment, aggression, anger and a feeling of humiliation in the child. The benefits of punishment may be negligible compared to the child’s negative emotional reactions, including manifestations of stubbornness. If a child does not know what to do, then one should not constantly reprimand him or be strict. Excessive restrictions provoke a child to daring, stubborn behavior, even in cases where the child knows that he is wrong. The child develops a hostile attitude towards the adult (“They don’t like me, everyone forbids me”). If this feeling of hatred grows, the child will develop a negative attitude towards his parents, which will lead to persistence in his bad behavior. When children grow up without being pulled back, restrictions without reason, then they learn to control themselves, manage their feelings and will not be stubborn. Many children violently express their emotions when they are denied something; any unfulfilled desire causes them to have an attack of anger and anger, and some children fall to the floor and fight in hysterics. Many mothers give up, are frightened by such emotional reactions and still fulfill the child’s demands. In the future, this becomes the usual style of relationship between mother and child and, as a rule, forms an egoistic personality and stubbornness. Such mothers need to gain strength and patience in order to respond to the unreasonable demands of the child, without humiliating, on the one hand, and without indulging all the whims, on the other. The child’s stubbornness can also be a response to the parent’s stubbornness. The more we try to influence a child, the more he begins to ignore our authority, expressing his attitude with disrespectful answers, silence, and passive resistance. Do not be too domineering towards the child! After all, our children are our reflection.