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Moms of young toddlers (14-16 months). How are you disciplining your DC?
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Re: Moms of young toddlers (14-16 months). How are you disciplining your DC?
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Posted by Jen2999
Really time outs at 14 months!??!!?
I don't know. DD never does anything so horrible that I would like put her in a "time out", nor do I think she would understand it yet.
If she throws stuff, shes a baby, I take it away or leave it on the floor.
If she gets mad and throws a tantrum, I leave her there and walk away and in less than 10 seconds she is done and laughing with the dog...
ITs not a time out like on supernanny where I say you are going to time out and have to stay here for 1 minute.
If they repeatedly do something I told them not to do, I remove them from the situation and sit them next to the ottoman (corner). I say "time out" and then walk away.
They start to cry so I definitely know they get they having consequences.
They know they are testing me, and they know what they should or shouldn't be doing because they look right at me before doing a bad behavior, then do the behavior, then look at me again to see what my reaction is.
I used to also have the attitude of they won't understand it, they are only being babies, but then I realized the discipline needs to start at some point, and the earlier I show them who is boss, the earlier they will learn to respect that.
ITA with Lauren - same in our house
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Re: Moms of young toddlers (14-16 months). How are you disciplining your DC?
Posted by SweetTooth
Posted by Jen2999
Really time outs at 14 months!??!!?
I don't know. DD never does anything so horrible that I would like put her in a "time out", nor do I think she would understand it yet.
If she throws stuff, shes a baby, I take it away or leave it on the floor.
If she gets mad and throws a tantrum, I leave her there and walk away and in less than 10 seconds she is done and laughing with the dog...
ITs not a time out like on supernanny where I say you are going to time out and have to stay here for 1 minute.
If they repeatedly do something I told them not to do, I remove them from the situation and sit them next to the ottoman (corner). I say "time out" and then walk away.
They start to cry so I definitely know they get they having consequences.
They know they are testing me, and they know what they should or shouldn't be doing because they look right at me before doing a bad behavior, then do the behavior, then look at me again to see what my reaction is.
I used to also have the attitude of they won't understand it, they are only being babies, but then I realized the discipline needs to start at some point, and the earlier I show them who is boss, the earlier they will learn to respect that.
Perfectly stated!!!!  ITA!!!
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septmonkey
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Re: Moms of young toddlers (14-16 months). How are you disciplining your DC?
Crashing as my DD is too young to comment (only 6 months). However, I wanted to pass on that there is a GREAT article "No More Meltdowns" and focuses on the use of the word NO in the April issue of Parents magazine. So good I even made DH read it.  P 164
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