Trying To Keep Up With My Kids
I'm having to take some serious action with my daughter. She is only 7 years old and she is disobeying constantly. Everything I tell her not to do she does. She is strong willed and she knows I threaten more than follow thru. Now I am paying the price. When I give her a time out and tell her enough is enough she either has an excuse or she whines at me. I hate that!!! I hate whinny kids!
Tonight I tell her no more candy and about 20 minutes later I see her unwrapping another piece of candy and when I say 'I told you no more candy, put that away' she just keeps unwrapping it! I told her not to give the neighbor kid any money and she gave her a dollar. At bedtime my daughter asked me if she was in trouble for doing that and I said 'no'. I tried to explain to her that this friend of hers (who is a few years older) will talk her into giving her money but she will not ever be generous with her money to my daughter. My daughter doesn't understand the difference in people or she doesn't want to understand. This upsets me that I cannot use simple logic with her. My son is more like my personality and I can explain things to him and he totally gets it. Not my daughter. She has been wanting to go to Target with the $5 she earned watering the neighbors plants when they were out of town, but now she only has a few dollars left so I am not going to take her. If she pulls her attitude on me I am just going to have to give her a major time out. This kid is always one step ahead of me. The last time I gave her a time out she opened her window and was talking to the kids outside from her room. She was making faces and entertaining them. So I had to lay down the law on that and say to her ' when you are having a time out you may not open your window or even stand at your window and look out. '
I am pretty sure this kid is going to be a very big challenge in her teen years! Time to read some of the books I have on strong willed children - I hope I'm not too late!
Later Blog Freaks - Lisa
Tonight I tell her no more candy and about 20 minutes later I see her unwrapping another piece of candy and when I say 'I told you no more candy, put that away' she just keeps unwrapping it! I told her not to give the neighbor kid any money and she gave her a dollar. At bedtime my daughter asked me if she was in trouble for doing that and I said 'no'. I tried to explain to her that this friend of hers (who is a few years older) will talk her into giving her money but she will not ever be generous with her money to my daughter. My daughter doesn't understand the difference in people or she doesn't want to understand. This upsets me that I cannot use simple logic with her. My son is more like my personality and I can explain things to him and he totally gets it. Not my daughter. She has been wanting to go to Target with the $5 she earned watering the neighbors plants when they were out of town, but now she only has a few dollars left so I am not going to take her. If she pulls her attitude on me I am just going to have to give her a major time out. This kid is always one step ahead of me. The last time I gave her a time out she opened her window and was talking to the kids outside from her room. She was making faces and entertaining them. So I had to lay down the law on that and say to her ' when you are having a time out you may not open your window or even stand at your window and look out. '
I am pretty sure this kid is going to be a very big challenge in her teen years! Time to read some of the books I have on strong willed children - I hope I'm not too late!
Later Blog Freaks - Lisa
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