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Running out of ideas for punishments that Work for 5 year old
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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 469316" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>Malika...lets take your broken vase story.</p><p></p><p>I have no idea what you would do but here is what I would do. I have had similar things happen in my home literally hundreds of times over the years.</p><p></p><p>Lets take a scenario where its a pure accident. Child is playing in the house and running down the hall and trips and falls onto a table that holds the vase and it falls over and breaks. </p><p></p><p>Child is upset, comes and tells mommy that he fell and the vase broke. They go and clean up the vase together and talk about how running in the house isnt a good thing because one, he can get hurt and two, he can break things like the vase. Pure accident. </p><p></p><p>Now...if the mother has told her child to not do something like jump on the couch, run in the house, jump on the bed, climb on the counters...whatever. And the child does something and something is broken while they are doing that thing, then that is a whole other matter. The child has broken a rule. A rule he knew was in place. "We dont do X" So at that point the parent should enact a punishment. Now say it is a broken vase. They clean up the vase together. They talk about why it got broken. And in this instance I think a time out should be given AND I think the child should be made to replace an approximate value of a vase with either labor or allowance money. Labor is my choice at this age because they dont have a clue what money is. Or you can have them lose a toy of theirs. After all, they broke one of yours.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 469316, member: 1514"] Malika...lets take your broken vase story. I have no idea what you would do but here is what I would do. I have had similar things happen in my home literally hundreds of times over the years. Lets take a scenario where its a pure accident. Child is playing in the house and running down the hall and trips and falls onto a table that holds the vase and it falls over and breaks. Child is upset, comes and tells mommy that he fell and the vase broke. They go and clean up the vase together and talk about how running in the house isnt a good thing because one, he can get hurt and two, he can break things like the vase. Pure accident. Now...if the mother has told her child to not do something like jump on the couch, run in the house, jump on the bed, climb on the counters...whatever. And the child does something and something is broken while they are doing that thing, then that is a whole other matter. The child has broken a rule. A rule he knew was in place. "We dont do X" So at that point the parent should enact a punishment. Now say it is a broken vase. They clean up the vase together. They talk about why it got broken. And in this instance I think a time out should be given AND I think the child should be made to replace an approximate value of a vase with either labor or allowance money. Labor is my choice at this age because they dont have a clue what money is. Or you can have them lose a toy of theirs. After all, they broke one of yours. [/QUOTE]
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