I am an avid baseball fan. Particularly those plucky Minnesota Twins. The Twins are everything that is right with the game of MLB (except for those ridiculous blackouts). Solid fundamentals, teamwork, develop talent from within, lift up and embrace players who come to the Twins to try to extend or save their careers... Work hard. If you make a mistake, do better tomorrow. Pick up your teammates when they are down. That's how they did the "worst to first" thing when they won the World Series. They are not doing so well this year, but in typical Twins fashion they are showing signs of life. Digging deep in the organization to find quality pitching. Sending guys down is not the end of a career. Trust me we will see those guys again before the year is out. They will come back and contribute. Okay we are getting to my point yet today.
Families need to have a plan and a vision to do the same thing. Got a kid whose not helping out? Got a kid that upsets the whole apple cart every day. Terrible tantrums? Yes set a plan to work on it. But don't demolish the kid in the process. Don't beat it out of them. Instead, make it clear what the issue is. Observe and predict the issue before you take action. Step back and see when it occurs. Try to see why it is occurring. If you can predict it then you can rehearse a better skill, a better way of approaching the problem. Sometimes players try to do too much. They try to carry the team and sometimes kids want to do it "By My Self!" All you can do is let them see it's not working. Notice with them how it worked out. Wonder what would happen if they tried something else? Rehearse it with them. That's how you do "Turn Arounds". You make a decision that you and they can turn around those bad habits and bad days. Then you set about it one day at a time. Be patient. You don't have 165 games you have 365 days. When you're done with one problem there will be another.
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