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I think we have a new difficult child in the family
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<blockquote data-quote="Hound dog" data-source="post: 172224" data-attributes="member: 84"><p>Oh, and as for the Mommy voice.</p><p> </p><p>It is a deep, stern firm command voice. No yelling, not loud. Actually probably an octave softer than my normal voice. I simply tell her "No Aubrey, you will not hit, bite, ect." And I repeat as necessary.</p><p> </p><p>The Look is well, if any of you ever had a Mom with "the Look" then you know what it is. Otherwise, I don't think there are words to describe it. lol</p><p> </p><p>My kids still <strong>move</strong> at both the Look and the voice without hesitation. All 3 says it affects them to their marrow. Which is why I never had to raise my voice at a child. (thanks to my grandma) And my grandmother's children never stopped reacting to the Look/voice throughout their adult years on the exceptional rare event she called upon it.</p><p> </p><p>So she's not reating to volume. Tone it might be. The command is direct, specific, with no hint that I'll accept any less than I've told her to do.</p><p> </p><p>On occasion I've had to use the voice and or look under normal circumstance, and I have to say she has the normal child response to it then. She stops what she's doing immediately, looks at me and waits to see if she's going to be placed on the time out chair. She doesn't repeat, no dark look, no tantrum.......although typical for age my whine or cry when put in time out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hound dog, post: 172224, member: 84"] Oh, and as for the Mommy voice. It is a deep, stern firm command voice. No yelling, not loud. Actually probably an octave softer than my normal voice. I simply tell her "No Aubrey, you will not hit, bite, ect." And I repeat as necessary. The Look is well, if any of you ever had a Mom with "the Look" then you know what it is. Otherwise, I don't think there are words to describe it. lol My kids still [B]move[/B] at both the Look and the voice without hesitation. All 3 says it affects them to their marrow. Which is why I never had to raise my voice at a child. (thanks to my grandma) And my grandmother's children never stopped reacting to the Look/voice throughout their adult years on the exceptional rare event she called upon it. So she's not reating to volume. Tone it might be. The command is direct, specific, with no hint that I'll accept any less than I've told her to do. On occasion I've had to use the voice and or look under normal circumstance, and I have to say she has the normal child response to it then. She stops what she's doing immediately, looks at me and waits to see if she's going to be placed on the time out chair. She doesn't repeat, no dark look, no tantrum.......although typical for age my whine or cry when put in time out. [/QUOTE]
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