Excuse me!!!My child is not wild!!!He is strong willed!

Some would describe them as defiant or uneducated: Strong-willed children often present their parents with challenges. Every rain, every ban is first questioned by them. But that's good news.

"I don’t put this jacket on!"

"No, I won't go to school anymore!"

"My hair stays the way it is!"

Strong-willed children are a blessing - even if they don't always make it easy for their parents.

From the outside, they often seem defiant and uneducated, but there is something else behind their behavior: They are simply not ready to stick to the rules without questioning them and they know very early on exactly what they want and what not.

And that is exactly what will make it particularly successful one day.

Scientific research has shown, for example, that disobedient children as adults have a higher salary than good children. You also work more often as an entrepreneur.

Children who often contradict develop into strong leaders

Because children who often contradict their parents, educators or teachers have a certain form of intelligence: They are able to think outside the box and outside of the box.

This makes them personalities who can easily develop new ideas again and again.

"Children with a strong will want to learn things for themselves and not just accept what others sa

y. That's why they test the limits over and over again," Columbia University psychologist Laura Markham told the Washington Post.

She explains that these children often grow up to be strong leaders who are very good at dealing with outside pressure and who perform their tasks with a special passion.

Strong-willed children develop the potential for conflict

These children build the foundations for their later success through conflict with their parents and other adult caregivers.

Because they sought confrontation early on, they have a pronounced potential for conflict in adulthood. They are therefore more independent and self-confident in dealing with themselves and their environment.

Parents should therefore definitely get involved in conflicts with their children. Otherwise, they deny their children an extremely important experience:

"If parents avoid conflict with their children, they withhold something from them: To learn how to deal with frustration and the experience that life goes on afterwards," said familylab seminar leader Sasha Schmidt FOCUS Online.

"Children have to have this experience very hard in real life if they haven't learned it in the nursery. And that often falls on their feet."