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Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Advice Needed
How do you put the kie-bosh on the kids ignoring you? On bickering? On the wee ones messing around with the computer????
The above are all things I'm struggling with right now with (in order) Kidlet #1, Kidlet #2, and Kidlet #3. Ugh.
Hmmm. #1: I always make sure I have their attention before asking something of them, and if I have to do the old "look at me" thing, I do. #2: Time outs? #3: Pete and I lock the computer with the little keystroke and you have a password-that way they can't log on and mess stuff up.
Why do you always ask the tough questions about parenting?!?!? :)
I only wish I knew. Is #2 bickering with you, or with #1? My #1 and #2 fight all day long. I read something in Parenting with Love and Logic - when they fight, put them both in time out. That way, you don't have to sit and play detective and figure out who did what first, and they have to learn to work it out. It's been working pretty well, at least for my sanity. They still fight all the time, but I feel better about just shoving them both in their room until they can work it out.
when you figure the first and last problems out let me know okay. I have both those problems with just my one lol. I can only image whaat it would be like with three of them.
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Hmmm. #1: I always make sure I have their attention before asking something of them, and if I have to do the old "look at me" thing, I do. #2: Time outs? #3: Pete and I lock the computer with the little keystroke and you have a password-that way they can't log on and mess stuff up.
Why do you always ask the tough questions about parenting?!?!? :)
I only wish I knew. Is #2 bickering with you, or with #1? My #1 and #2 fight all day long. I read something in Parenting with Love and Logic - when they fight, put them both in time out. That way, you don't have to sit and play detective and figure out who did what first, and they have to learn to work it out. It's been working pretty well, at least for my sanity. They still fight all the time, but I feel better about just shoving them both in their room until they can work it out.
"Love and Logic" is one of the texts we use for parenting classes at a local counseling center for families. :)
when you figure the first and last problems out let me know okay. I have both those problems with just my one lol. I can only image whaat it would be like with three of them.
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