i am a mother of two.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Parenting or child rearing is the process of promoting and supporting the physical, emotional, social, and intellectual development of a child from infancy to adulthood. Parenting refers to the intricacies of raising a child aside from the biological relationship. The most common caretaker in parenting is the biological parent(s) of the child in question, although others may be an older sibling, a grandparent, a legal guardian, aunt, uncle or other family member, or a family friend. Governments and society may have a role in child-rearing as well. In many cases, orphaned or abandoned children receive parental care from non-parent blood relations. Others may be adopted, raised in foster care, or placed in an orphanage. Parenting skills vary, and a parent with good parenting skills may be referred to as a \"good parent\". The English pediatrician and psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott described the concept of \"good-enough\" parenting in which a minimum of prerequisites for healthy child development are met. Winnicott wrote, \"The good-enough mother...starts off with an almost complete adaptation to her infant's needs, and as time proceeds she adapts less and less completely, gradually, according to the infant's growing ability to deal with her failure.\"\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I have two kids and I don't know how to get them to obey me."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "That doesn't make you a \"bad parent\". Parenting skills can be different from person to person."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yeah, I have tried everything.  I tried timeouts but maybe I did it wrong."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Have you considered PMT or Parent Management Training? It can help teach positive reinforcement methods for improving common behavior issues."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I have never even heard of PMT.  Where can I take Parent Management Training courses?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "There are several institutions that offer the course. I am sure you could find a local resource by searching online."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I will have to check them out.  What do you learn at PMT classes?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "You can learn about positive reinforcement methods, how to change your own parenting behaviors, and how to handle tantrums. Among other things."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Sounds like the things I see on the show Supernanny."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It is similar. She would often, through instruction and observation, help the parents find alternative ways to deal with misbehaving children."}, {"role": "user", "content": "5"}]