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From a Mother of 4 Girls“My answer to discipline is to be fair but consistent. Never, ever threaten to take something away and not do it or you are in big trouble.You must follow through and if that means your child misses out on birthday parties, dance, etc then so be it. Once they realize the consequence for the action it is rarely repeated. This reminds me of a funny story (about the girls giving up their dummies). We have a rule that when you go for at least 1 week without a dummy you get to choose your own toy to a value at the toy shop. This worked well with all the girls and when we did this for Carla*, a severe thumb sucker, she chose a video. We had tried every foul tasting liquid, nail deterrent, etc, on the market, but this was one severe thumb sucker. The video worked and we were all happy until she had her tonsils removed 6 months later. You guessed it, the thumb returned. Again we did the whole video bribe and she stopped. A few months later she saw a video she wanted and asked “If I start sucking my thumb again and then stop, will you buy it for me?” The answer was a very quick “If you start sucking your thumb again then I will be taking away your toys and you will be earning them back!” “Oh...., “was her reply and we never had to talk about it again!!” From Nerida, mother of Sophie, 5.Yes, that's right, I'm Nerida, the editor of this site. I just wanted to share a personal observation with you:“I’ve noticed with my daughter’s behavior that if I’m feeling sick, or cross, or just generally having a bad day, then she is unbelievable. When I’m in a good mood and really “with it” little things don’t bother me, I can jolly her out of whining, and everything goes pretty well. I know that when I’m crabby I jump on every little irritating thing she does, there is a lot more yelling and she plays up more and more. If I find myself yelling a lot, I stop and think about what is really going on. Sometimes we need time out from each other to just cool down and try again. Sometimes when I realize I’m causing most of the friction I’ll apologize and then have a joke by asking which one of us is the crankiest. This usually ends up as a face pulling competition.
Once we are laughing we can both try to improve our behavior. “
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