You've got an emotional project on the table when your child does one nutty, difficult or out-of-touch thing again and again, and you're coming to your wits' end. Both of you are involved. Your child seems to have the problem, according to our time-honored tradition of pinning responsibility on children when they have difficulties. But when you look carefully, you realize that you, too, are emotionally spent. You have no patience, no new ideas, and at some point, you don't want to understand your child. You just want him or her to stop. The one thing your child can't do. He's emotionally exhausted in this area, too...
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