How To Say No To Your Child's Request Without Making Them Angry

How do I say "no" to my child's request without making him angry?

If you have a child that's been raised with permissive parenting and now the permissive parent wants to get the power back and become an appropriate disciplinarian to the child, and if the child doesn't get their way and they have temper tantrums, so what? So what? Because a child has a temper tantrum and gets angry because they don't get their own way, so what? Let them be angry. But that doesn't mean you cave in to their anger or to their demands. That's really what got the permissive parent in trouble in the first place. So what you would do with a child that is used to having their own way and now you realize, "wait a minute this isn't working out", is that you would go back to solving problems with the child with these six steps: There's a problem. What makes it a problem? analyze it. What is a possible solution to solving the problem? Make a plan. Do it. Evaluate. That's six steps.