So I came home yesterday evening after most of four days away at my bonspiel…
Now, I don’t know that the kids really missed me being gone, but it’s certainly a different vibe when I’m not here, if only because of the differences in how we handle discipline. Continue reading
I suppose on some level, I’m not all that surprised that at some point, the Monster’s behavior has shown a few more violent tendencies.
We’ve been dealing for a while now with the fact that he’s inclined to throw himself on the floor and be otherwise difficult if we’re trying to move him to non-preferred activities. This has moved into flailing about, since that makes it harder to manipulate him into position to do said activities… Continue reading
If it’s not bad enough that the Monster obviously has receptive and expressive language issues… it’s the fact that sometimes, as parents, we do as well.
I know that children are always going to be challenging. I know this enough from dealing with my friends’ NT children, and seeing how they are on the verge themselves of tearing their hair out with the effort to avoid ending the problem. (As I’ve said in other contexts – God made them cute to ensure their survival.) Continue reading
The post I was going to write tonight’s just going to have to wait for some time tomorrow, I fear.
1-2-3 Magic is great sometimes for discipline, but I think there’s points where applying it with the Monster hits a brick wall – mostly where it comes to immediate infractions and sending him straight to time-out. Continue reading
So while I was at my bonspiel on Saturday, the wife took the Monster to go see a movie.
We’ve actually never taken the Monster to the cinema before (as far as I can remember) and this was a regular showing of a film, rather than a sensory-friendly one. (The wife won preview passes for The Croods.) Continue reading
Of all the things that could have caused a disruption in discipline in our house, the winter vacation was perhaps the worst thing in a while to happen to us.
Before his holiday break, the Monster was doing really well in terms of discipline – he has his moments, of course, where he is willful, where he refuses to obey or decides to be a pain on the posterior for the sake of being such… but that’s being a four year old. Continue reading
It’s been about two and a half months since we decided (or rather, the wife strongly suggested) that we move to using 1-2-3 Magic with the Monster. We started with it in the middle of August (see *POOF* Magic!) and… Continue reading
I mentioned a while ago that we were trying 1-2-3 Magic with the Monster. It’s having its up and downs. Continue reading
I can remember being a kid, being in school, and always looking forward to the weekends.
Hell, let’s be honest – I scheduled my classes in such a way in college, when I could, to ensure I had four day weekends. Continue reading
We bit the bullet.
Obviously, nothing we’re doing is getting through to the Monster vis-a-vis discipline – there’s a lot of times that he’s either listening or not, and we’ve been blowing our collective stacks. (Or I’ve been coming home to find a very stressed out wife due to the Monster choosing not to behave and giving her additional grief while dealing with both kids at once.) And yes, we’ve seen the suggestions that have been made on other posts regarding 1-2-3 Magic. Continue reading