Some people just always have to be right. Even if they are wrong. They will even look like complete fools trying to prove their points.
Psychologists say there are very specific reasons why some people are stubborn.
“Why is it so vital to be right?” psychotherapist Mel Schwartz writes in an article for Psychology Today. “Well to begin with, if you’re not right, then you are indeed wrong, with all the accompanying sense of humiliation and failure.”
Some people need to be right in order to protect their self-image when they feel that it’s being threatened. It’s sort of a coping mechanism for dealing with insecurity.
“People who always need to be right tend to have fragile egos,” therapist Karyl McBride, Ph.D told Men’s Health.
And that need to be right may start in childhood.
“Still, raising stubborn kids is tricky. It’s up to you to show them they don’t rule the world—without teaching them to be wimps,” Parenting.com says. “Some kids seem to be born willful.”
But that’s not always a bad thing. Stubbornness can also help with focus and can boost learning. Still raising stubborn kids can still have its challenges.
Here are some tips for dealing with stubborn children:
- Give them the illusion of choice. This involves giving them two or several choices with one being the desired outcome and the others less desirable options that are not an actual choice at all.
- Tell them they can do it their way. For example, you can tell them “You can use as much soap as you want as long as you wash.”
Or you could make them eat an onion.
A video was posted on YouTube by Russian dad Dmytro Kulagin showing his toddler daughter eating a raw onion. It’s titled “How to Eat Onion.”
And boy does this little girl eat an onion like a champ. She’s chomping down on this thing and fighting through the gagging and tears to get it down..
The Reddit caption for the video suggests that she insisted that the onion was an apple and ate it in defiance of her mother telling her otherwise.
“Mom, can I have this apple? That’s not an apple! That’s an onion! No it’s not! Alright, if you insist… (When you rather die than admitting an error),” the caption reads.
I mean, we have so many questions.
Why are you letting your toddler eat an onion? This poor kid looks disgusted and miserable and her parents say nothing.
“Really, she was not forced to eat onion,” her dad Dmytro Kulagin assures YouTube viewers, according to Huffington Post. “She was 1.5 years old when I took this video. She bit it several times and stopped.”
Check out the video below of this stubborn and tough little girl.
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