I Just Told My Kids If They Dont Go To Bed They Will Sleep In The...

[Lobzi]

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Me too, and then show us a beautiful coop and say that the kids responded."ALRIGHT!!!"

 

[luvmychicknkids]

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OUCH....all I am gonna say is that seems a bit frightening. Kinda reminds me of my neighbors in Alaska who made their daughter stand outside (mid winter) and sing "I am a bad girl" for about half an hour.

 

[Wolf-Kim]

When I was much younger(younger than 10 years), my mom pulled the "I'm going to leave you here if you don't stop fighting and get in"..

You want to know what my little smart@ss self did?!?


I crossed my arms marched over to the curb and plopped my booty down and glared at her, calling her bluff.

She started the car and even began to pull out. But she broke before I did. She never tried that one on me again.

-Kim

 

[luvmychicknkids]

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I tried the "I am going NOW and will leave you" threat with my 7 y/o recently. I said "Bye Cai...been nice knowing you, I am gone". He crossed his arms, stomped to the car and said "Oh Mom, you couldn't leave me if you tried, you love me too much" and got in the car!!! LOL

 

[Wolf-Kim]

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I tried the "I am going NOW and will leave you" threat with my 7 y/o recently. I said "Bye Cai...been nice knowing you, I am gone". He crossed his arms, stomped to the car and said "Oh Mom, you couldn't leave me if you tried, you love me too much" and got in the car!!! LOL

Now, had it been my father. He would have stood up and began unbucklings his belt and all three of us would have been in the back seat and buckled up before you could say NOW!

LOL

-Kim

 

[Ladysonja]

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My Mum would agree with you... And my friends said the same thing about her... They all called her Mum and would do just about anything to receive her approval, attention and ear for listening to whatever was going on.

Although I do not have any kids, I do have a young 20-something who has adopted me as her second Mum since she was 17 or 18.

Although I do not consider myself to have any parenting skills what so ever, I do listen to her when she is having a tough go of things.

My friend and her Mum talk, but I think she wants someone elses opinion on things when she thinks her Mum is off base on a subject. I have yet come across a situation that I haven't disagreed with what her Mum has told her and basically tell her the same thing, but maybe in a different way.

It's all about trust and understanding... One thing to mention, my friend and I do have an understanding though... I won't tell her Mum about things we discuss as long as it does not mean her harming herself or someone else or doing anything dangerous. So far, I've only had to do it once and her Mum was glad that I told her what happened, but made my friend figure out the solution and then she had to tell her Mum.

I'm just so greatful that she has someone else to turn to and I'm happy to be there for her ... Not like a Mum, but more like a big sister.

 

[luvmychicknkids]

Now, had it been my father. He would have stood up and began unbucklings his belt and all three of us would have been in the back seat and buckled up before you could say NOW!

LOL

-Kim

Ah yes, I remember those days myself!!!!

Somehow, my kids think belts are just for keeping pants up on their scrawny little rears!!!

 

[Break an Egg]

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OUCH....all I am gonna say is that seems a bit frightening. Kinda reminds me of my neighbors in Alaska who made their daughter stand outside (mid winter) and sing "I am a bad girl" for about half an hour.

Everyone here works as a team, if you don't do chores you don't get to enjoy the inside of the house, now of course they have a tree house that they just go up to lol, but removing them from the house takes away their power to resist me. We also have a rule. We don't call each other bad. Our behavior can be bad, but they aren't.

When my oldest stepdaughter came to live with us, she would tell my 2 yr old daughter that she was being bad. Nothing bothered me more than learning that my stepkids didn't understand our actions can be bad, but just because they misbehave doesn't mean they are bad kids.

 

[BirdBoy88]

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OUCH....all I am gonna say is that seems a bit frightening. Kinda reminds me of my neighbors in Alaska who made their daughter stand outside (mid winter) and sing "I am a bad girl" for about half an hour.

 

[BettyR]

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As a person who has struggled with a weight problem all my life if my kids didn’t want to eat something I just put it in the frig until they were hungry and ready to eat. I was so afraid I would teach them to overeat that I never tried to get them to eat anything they didn’t want.

I always figured that no kid was going to starve to death with food sitting in front of them. I didn’t keep any junk food in the house so there wasn’t anything for them to eat but what I made. I let them eat when and if they were hungry and tried not to make a big deal out of anything to do with food.

I don’t know if it worked or if my kids were just lucky and inherited their father’s skinny genes but I’m happy to say all my kids are thin and they all have healthy eating habits. They still have a fat mom but that’s ok…..as I’ve gotten older I’ve come to realize that it’s not the size of the dress but the person inside the dress that matters. My dear sweet husband has been telling me this for 35 years but I still didn’t want my kids to have to grow up heavy.