how hard is it...?
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Topic: how hard is it...?
Posted By: aimeejoy
Subject: how hard is it...?
Date Posted: 08 January 2008 at 2:10pm
... to take 2 little books and a baby bottle 3 metres from the lounge to bedroom?  Simple request has ended in world war with neither of us backing down! I said if she put those back in her room she could watch a video, but packed a big tanty over it and now refusing. Its such a stupid little thing, but I dont want to back down on it. She has walked into her room numerous times since then to sit on her bed for time out, but it just doesnt cross her stubborn little mind that she could take them with her and then have a nice time watching a video...
Bloody toddlers! ------------- Aimee Hannah 22/10/05 Greer 11/02/08 |
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 08 January 2008 at 5:40pm
| Oh, been there! We've had stand-offs about banana skins and yoghurt mainly. But i do find that once I have won (and i always do), the behaviour is fabulous for the rest of the day. |
Posted By: james
Date Posted: 08 January 2008 at 5:50pm
dont give in ammiee i did once and now its harder to get him to do things but we are getting there ------------- <a href="http://lilypie.com"><img src="http://b4.lilypie.com/nLJ5p13.png" alt="Lilypie 4th Birthday Ticker" border="0" /></a> |
Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 08 January 2008 at 7:15pm
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ooooh yes, we have that behaviour from ayja who always pics time out as her option when given the "you have 2 choices, do .... or you can go to time out"
backfires though cos as soon as she's out of time out it's always, "good, now you can go back and do..." ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja 
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Posted By: aimeejoy
Date Posted: 08 January 2008 at 9:19pm
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The other day she wouldnt brush her teeth, refused to go in the bathroom with full on tanty on the floor. I put her on her bed and gave her the options - time out or brush teeth. Every few minutes I went in to ask if she was ready to brush her teeth and she kept choosing time out! 10 minutes later shecomes out and takes me to the bathroom. Weird!
Anyway, she finally after many time outs decided to put them away and then happily sat and watched her video. At least I didnt give in. ------------- Aimee Hannah 22/10/05 Greer 11/02/08 |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 08 January 2008 at 10:30pm
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I STILL get that with Miss Four, she sits on her bedroom floor and screams for half an hour at the indignity of being asked to put her clothes away, even tho the task itself is a two minute job. Ugh! -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 08 January 2008 at 11:00pm
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Argh, Hannah is worse now than ever! We had a tantrum the other day when I asked her to pick up a bit of rubbish (which was from something she destroyed) and she threw the biggest hissy fit about 1m from the bin. Seriously. ONE more metre.
I didn't back down but geeeeeeepers creepers if it takes an hour to get a frigging piece of rubbish in the bin again I am going to scream. |
Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date Posted: 08 January 2008 at 11:11pm
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ahhhhh the joys of toddlers
when jack was about 2.5 or so, he wanted a muesli bar, i asked him to say please........do you think he'd say it! over and over and over 'muesli bar, muesli bar' 'then say please' 'muesli bar, muesli bar wah wah wah' this went on for over an hour 
he finally said please, and ate his bar happily ------------- http://www.alternatickers.com"> 
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Posted By: caraMel
Date Posted: 08 January 2008 at 11:19pm
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Oooh sounds very familiar!
We had a beauty today from Miss E who didn't want to put her rubbish in the bin either. She screamed and howled for 10 minutes before storming off to shut herself in the toilet (WTF?) where I informed her she was not allowed to sulk in there because time out takes place in the corner. All of a sudden she came over all sad and said she 'sometimes gets upset when she makes me cross' and cried on my shoulder for a minute or two. Then she happily cleaned up the rubbish and it was all over! Hormones anyone? Was so cute and sad and sweet, but left me feeling even more horrified with visions of moody teenage outbursts in our future, eeek! ------------- Mel, Mummy to E: 6, B: 4 and: 
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Posted By: my2angels
Date Posted: 09 January 2008 at 1:48pm
| Ive started saying i will just throw ..... out. Yesterday he wouldnt pack up his wiggles blocks and Im soooo sick of them all over the house so i said right if they arent done by the time i get back in the room I will pack them up and just put them straight into the rubbish. Works everytime and Ive only had to throw out something twice and he got the message |
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 09 January 2008 at 6:16pm
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I feel like I'm threatening all day.
Really have to remember to follow through and not just bluff. She calls me on it EVERY time. |
Posted By: aimeejoy
Date Posted: 09 January 2008 at 8:30pm
So glad to know I'm not alone! This morning it was a battle of eating breakfast at the table, not in front of the telly (which she is allowed to do on the weekend). She wouldnt finish her porridge at the table so it got chucked, then she wanted toast like me. Wouldnt give her any, came on her and went and checked onher 10 mins later to find she had helped herself to bread. Argh, so not sure who won that particular battle, but the rest of the day was ok. Mum heard her screaming for toast on the phone and told me not to be too hard on her  ------------- Aimee Hannah 22/10/05 Greer 11/02/08 |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 13 January 2008 at 8:38pm
I bought a $5 pack of stickers and I ask Hannah to put her clothes away for a sticker - or I will and she'll get no sticker. Wages 101  ------------- |
Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 13 January 2008 at 9:29pm
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The girls ended up being so silly yesterday they had me in tears - by 10 am paris had been relegated to coming into the kitchen with me and she got given a sponge and told to scrub the cupboards (i was doing a spring clean). She of course viewed this as neat and then her sister wanted to join. lesson lost there. ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 13 January 2008 at 9:33pm
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OMG I still have this with a nearly 4 year old boy. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 13 January 2008 at 10:01pm
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Becks it gets worse with age i think, Paris is soooooooo narky with everything sometimes. and worse thing is when she makes it very clear that she is knowingly ingoring everything you say or will look at you and snidely smile as she does something she's not supposed to be doing, like walking over her sister's doll or something you've just asked her not to do, or when you are telling her off for a very good reason and she sits there laughing at you. ARGH frustration... i sure as heck hope that once all our pre-school monkeys start heading towards teens we are all still here and there's a dealing with teenagers board so we can all come back and nut it out (alot of the topics will probably be the same as the toddler section) ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 13 January 2008 at 10:05pm
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Great just what I want to hear. They can fight with each other when they get to school (I am sure Paris is going to the school just down the road??) and not bring it home with them ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 13 January 2008 at 10:08pm
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yep she is, i went there so i wanted the girls to ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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