Discipline

I think your doing fine. I use a firm voice on Alize and he responses really well to being off. I think he understands the whole cocept as he sees his sister getting told off and he tries to put his stern voice on and get all mouthy with me telling them off lol..

Kellz I think she will response really well,

Caitlin is such a lil madam! She knows what she's not allowed to do (like put her hands on the oven or play with the stereo (Daddy's toys lol) she even says "NO!" when she does it!

The only thing that works with her is telling her no and removing her from the situation, then distracting her. I've tried a couple of times to do Time Out or stand in the corner for 30 seconds thing and I swear it was more trouble than it was worth and I got more rilled up from trying to keep her there than I ever was over her touching stuff she knows she shouldn't!

I think time out would work better when they understand consequence. Knowing right from wrong is a whole different skill IMO.

Another thing is to show her how to be nice. We used to stroke Jack or the cat and say 'nice and gentle' and then so whenever he was going in for a bite or hit we would grab his hand and say make him stroke and say nice and gentle. Then he would get lots of praise for being nice and gentle. It wasn't long before he picked it up.

At more 18 months time out worked wonders for his biting. but we had to put him in an area (the hallway) where there was nothing to do and he couldn't get out of.