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I'm mean too! Hiya meanie!!!!!!
Oh and we didn't do time outs in my house......i had much more painful solutions in the mix. Because I'm uber mean!
I can't really talk about the *actual* discipline cause well, sometimes ppl don't like the reality of parenting....
Cant do that with BamBam yet. He's only 2...so he's just testing his wings. Working on the "I dont want to" and the "NO!". Plus I cant be everywhere at once.
Chatterbox got a full 45 min time out today. He threw a FULL tempertantrum, which he knows ends up with soap in the mouth. He tore apart his room TWICE while in time out. The MIL was actually worried the neighbors might call the cops because of the SCREAMING (that happened a lot with my younger sister) I think a cop showing up might do good. The right cop might be willing to scare him into compliance, or just say "You need to be nice, police officers don't like it when you are bad"
My sister was a tempertantrumer until she was ~12, and her kiddo pyscologist told us to keep gallons of water in the fridge to shock her out of the "working herself up" or the "self-perpetuating cry". I havent done that with Chatterbox, but he did get threatened with the shower head when he was in the tub for soap in the mouth. Then he cleaned up his room (again) and had to say sorry to everyone.
WHY can't we beat our kids? If a tree falls in the woods, and it doesn't leave a slap mark, does anyone hear it?
...Ok I am just kidding, but GOOD GRIEF I know why people might feel like that is the last resort at times.
