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If you've been around kids enough you know that they can be pretty impulsive, right Kisha. Oh, definitely. Hi, we're Tom and Kisha Maher of Hailey's House. We're going to share a couple of tidbits with you on how to keep your child under control when they're getting a little impulsive. And you know what, it all starts before the impulse begins. Before the behavior begins you want to teach your child how to thing through their emotions and their decisions. Every decisions is going to have a consequence or a reward. And when you're acting impulsive you don't always think ahead, right? Oh, well yeah. Well we as adults do that as well. So what we want to do is first off we want to model that for our children. While we're making decisions on things that we want to do stop and talk about it with your child as if they're involved in that as well. Model that by really talking about that. And teaching your children about how to model their impulses growing up is going to set them up for an adult, don't you think? Oh, definitely. We're going to have to deal with these issues all the time. I mean just this morning I wanting to eat a big huge hamburger for breakfast. Not a good thing for breakfast. And you controlled it well, Kisha, you controlled it well. Again, we're Tom and Kisha with Hailey's House.