R’ Miller said that one of his sons was acting out; he was full of energy. He was making a racket; he was making so much noise. He and his wife tried to calm him down. They were trying all different kinds of hishtadlus and different methods. They gave him positive attention, they tried ignoring him; they did this and they did that. He just continued on and on. He wasn’t stopping. His wife said to R’ Miller, “I’m getting a headache! Please stop him!” R’ Miller didn’t know what else he could try. He had already tried everything, and nothing had worked! Then he said, “One second. I know what I’m going to do. I’m just going to say, “Hakadosh Baruch Hu. You’re in charge of how my child behaves. You’re in charge of the results of what my child does. Therefore, I’m just leaving it up to you!” He said that it didn’t take more than a half a minute, when all of sudden, his child saw something and he got sidetracked. He got distracted and he forgot about everything he was doing! The child got so busy with the new distraction. He became so calm and so relaxed! We saw that Baruch Hashem all the noise and all the racket just stopped cold turkey! As heard on ‘A Life With Bitachon’.
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