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In 1981, American psychologist Russell A. Barkley proposed the opposition cycle, maintained by endless argumentation between the parent (or caregiver) and the child. According to this model, the parent who seeks to explain his or her request, to justify it, and to put rational arguments behind it, is merely giving the child material with which to argue and oppose even more. Argumentation and explanations thus become the fuel of opposition. In 2022, our director Dr. Benoît Hammarrenger proposed an alternative model in which opposition is constructed, maintained and amplified within the anger cycle. The child's irritability or anger triggers and sustains the adult's irritability and anger, which in turn amplifies the child's anger, in a cycle that can only be explosive.