I was experimenting this new creative technique to get through my son, and make him use less (as he says) scary words. I guess this is going on in his pre-school because most of moms were complaining that their sons are making scary voices and using words like, beat, break, kill,…
Not bad words necessarily, especially in the context they use it. But it drives me crazy listening to my son even using these words in a play with his sister or when he is angry of something.
So I started slowly a week ago and from time to time when he said forbidden words or was unfair to his sister I would pretend I can’t see him. I would talk to myself saying something like “ I wonder where he is, I can’t see him, I guess he did something wrong again”. What happened was that he would try to get my attention. I wouldn’t given up until he apologize.
I started is very slow and two days ago, I did this every time he misbehaved. Well yesterday and today were no forbidden words days. ? We are still working on playing nice with sister but that is also 50% better.
I think I won this battle, until the next one…
Until later,
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Great job! It’s so hard to stick to something like that, but it really does pay off in the end. I’ve found the only thing that works for my daughter (5 in May) is a time-out. I make her sit on her bed and I set the timer on the oven for 5 minutes. As soon as it goes off, she knows she can get up and play again. She also knows that if she gets up sooner than 5 minutes, or she makes noise, I add time to the timer. I’ve tried tons of different ways to discipline, but this one seems to get through the best.
It’s a good thing that your daughter responds to timeout. It’s a lot easier that way. I had never had success with timeouts. It just makes things worse in hour house. Well you have to do what works for your kids.I created this when I saw a specialist in TV saying that kids like praise to punishment but they prefer punishment to ignorance.