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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 502040" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>I think the best lesson from what Df and IC were saying is that the best way to handle it depends on the problems and their root cause. </p><p></p><p>Wiz was very very careful when telling me of my defects. He was pretty sure that "mean mommy" was NOT what he wanted to say by about age 7. I can remember telling him that I guess if I was MEAN then I didn't buy him this and didn't take him there and he wasn't eating a chocolate chip cookie that I baked because mean mommies don't do that stuff. The next step was to ask him if he wanted me to live down to the "mean mommy" expectations? and do it the times he was idiotic enough to say yes.</p><p></p><p>We also had a HUGE issue with him telling me that all I did was "yell" at him. I finally stopped this by actually yelling EVERY WORD I said to him for an entire day. Including things I said out in public. He was five and "DO YOU HAVE TO POTTY NOW?" was NOT something he wanted everyone at the playground to hear. It worked, and I was SO GLAD because I couldn't speak at all the next day - laryngitis from all the yelling. LOLOL but true!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 502040, member: 1233"] I think the best lesson from what Df and IC were saying is that the best way to handle it depends on the problems and their root cause. Wiz was very very careful when telling me of my defects. He was pretty sure that "mean mommy" was NOT what he wanted to say by about age 7. I can remember telling him that I guess if I was MEAN then I didn't buy him this and didn't take him there and he wasn't eating a chocolate chip cookie that I baked because mean mommies don't do that stuff. The next step was to ask him if he wanted me to live down to the "mean mommy" expectations? and do it the times he was idiotic enough to say yes. We also had a HUGE issue with him telling me that all I did was "yell" at him. I finally stopped this by actually yelling EVERY WORD I said to him for an entire day. Including things I said out in public. He was five and "DO YOU HAVE TO POTTY NOW?" was NOT something he wanted everyone at the playground to hear. It worked, and I was SO GLAD because I couldn't speak at all the next day - laryngitis from all the yelling. LOLOL but true! [/QUOTE]
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