Welcome to the world of consistency and consequences! Olivia had her first time out this morning. She got into one of the kitchen cupboards (I know, we need to put our latches on), even though she knows she isn't supposed to, and she broke one of my butter dishes. Stinker. So, I thought, well perfect opportunity! She can see what she did and learn that it isn't okay to get in the cupboards because you can break things. So she had a time out in her chair for one minute while I cleaned up. She handled it fine, of course...because she didn't really get it, but she will!
Tell me about how you first began disciplining your children!!
2 comments:
Good job, Mama! Although I would personally find it hard to discipline cute little Olivia. :) You're exactly right--she will figure out what time outs are all about!
I don't remember when we first started discipling Annika, but I remember about the time she was 18 months and chomped on another kid. I took her home and for the next couple of weeks, put her in situations where she was tempted to bite (like me taking a toy from her hands) and then put her in time-out when she came at me open-mouthed. It worked (ok, she got like 16 time-outs one day) and I was so happy to see results!
i can't remember when we started disciplining dear little hudson, now 4 (did i just say dear, i mean-adventurous). i will say that consistency is the key. but the style will evolve with age. making sure that you are doing it for the right reason is also very important. sometimes, much more likely now that i'm super busy, it's easy to be quick to discipline and not really look at what the circumstances are. and i use different levels of discipline based on the situation. warning, time out, loss of toy, etc. sometimes it's me who really needs the time out!
stick with it. you'll be glad you did :) she will be too, she just doesn't know it yet!
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