Punishment - what’s appropriate
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My 3 year old currently has a proper attitude and keeps telling us no, unfortunately it is developmental and she doesn’t go to nursery. I don’t believe it’s other kids fault because they’re all at roughly the same development stage. We use the time out chair for a couple of minutes when she’s not listening, stomping her foot or telling us no, not every time but after we have asked her twice we say “if you keep being silly and not listening you can go on time out” we don’t like to use the word naughty but that’s personal preference. They will soon realise that doing these things will result in a time out. We’ve stopped watching certain shows like blippi and meekah because we find they’re too overstimulating which isn’t helping with behavior. We have seen a big difference over the last few weeks doing this. Most importantly stay calm, they’re still learning. Talk to her and tell her that what she’s doing isn’t nice, use kind hands, listening ears etc x
Does she use the same behaviour at nursery? My 3 year old son has an extremely naughty streak too at the moment whether it be on his own or whether he’s with his 1 year old brother however he is an absolute angel at nursery!😏😂 We’ve introduced the naughty step for when he’s being really naughty but the last few days I’ve been saying ‘you’ve got until I count to 10 otherwise I will take ‘most loved toy’ away.. this has been working and by the time I get to 7/8 he starts to calm down. I think it’s a stage they all go through where they start to push boundaries and learn what they can/can’t get away with xx
Warning clear and simple , stop that behaviour because...... 2nd time final warning and a consequence explained if you do that again time out or if it's a toy his playing with inappropriately I will take object away then 3rd time take action If his doing something and I ask to stop he can have these il push the limits and continue I will say mommy is going to count to 5 if you don't stop I will consequence and then I count down from 5, failure to comply take action Smacking is an instant time out
You can’t delay a punishment- so not going to the party isn’t really going to help. You immediately need to react to naughty behaviour. Take the offending toy away or put on a “naughty step” then apologise to each other and carry on playing. I would speak to nursery about the naughty boy
I only have a one year old but I’d put her in a different nursery