Now, I will say, that we have our fair share of time outs in the Brulotte house. Ryan spends his 2 minutes in the hallway against the wall and cries, we do the whole spiel (ala Supernanny) we give hugs, he says sorry, and all is better! Right?
Well, lately, if we have to give Ryan a warning, he has been putting himself in timeout. We'll tell him to stop and let him know it is a timeout if he does it again and turn around and Ryan is gone--sitting in the timeout spot in the hall!
It gets better! Last night, Jamie asked Ryan to come to his room so we could put him in bed. He turned and ran, but then obeyed and came to his room. Then, he starts throwing this huge fit, because he wants to go to "mimeout!" (timeout) Now, this makes me think that we are doing something wrong! Anyone else's kid throw fits because they don't get a timeout???? Ryan may have been trying to delay bedtime, but seriously? If he really wants to go to timeout, is it really having the desired effect??? Timeouts have worked really well with him, but this is making me wonder!
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Any one else?
Posted by Char at 1:57 PM
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What a goober!! I don't know what to tell you...we still hate our timeouts. I can't even think of anything else to do instead!! Let us know if you find something else that works.
Welcome to the creative thinking of a two year old. Someday they will learn to reason. When Heidi started thinking it was fun (she has gone through thinking everything is fun, including spankings, talk about feeling completely powerless as a parent!), we started taking her favorite things away. Taking "lolly pop molly" the purple carebear away is terrible, right? This is still our most effective technique, some nights I thing we have half of her bedroom taken away but she seems to get the point, until this becomes "fun" too.
that is too cute! he is a smart little cookie. i love that he puts himself in timeouts. lol.
FUNNY!!! Maybe he is just a kid with high standards for himself. :) If the result of changing his behavior is still working with the timeout, I guess I would stay with it. Just not sure why he would think it was fun or enjoyable??? Maybe he needs some alone time at 1 1/2 :) HAHAHA
Keep us posted on this!!! I would love to know if this was just a crazy phase or if you end up changing paths with him. :)
Just goes to show us that each kids is different! :)
When this happened with MaKinley I had to start spanking. Dicipline in our home is NOT supossed to be fun...so we had to go with "harsher" form. Although I will say, having a child respond to dicipline is a blessing in and of itself! :)
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