Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New profile posts
Latest activity
Internet Search
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
Parent Support Forums
General Parenting
Showdown at the OK Corale
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 421085" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Yes, done that already (probably) too soon... Was feeling bad (of course) immediately after and apologised and tried totalk about it. He just kept covering his ears and saying he didn't want to talk about it...</p><p>I think at the root of this for me is that I find such behaviour really brattish, unacceptable, can't kind of get it truly into my head that "he can't help it" (is that true?) But I forgot, in my stressed-up state, the true sequence of events... in fact what sent him ballistic was that I took off a gold star on his "reward chart" (something that actually works quite well) - this is not an established practice between us, not something I have done, but I just felt there had to be some consequence to this endless ignoring of what we had agreed... I should say that bedtime is normally no problem whatsoever, I suspect largely because he is SO tired by then. He accepts to go to bed like a dream usually and is asleep within minutes...</p><p>Oy vey! Tomorrow is another day, as you say... I feel I/we can't afford too many of these failures... It's not what I want to be creating in his psyche...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 421085, member: 11227"] Yes, done that already (probably) too soon... Was feeling bad (of course) immediately after and apologised and tried totalk about it. He just kept covering his ears and saying he didn't want to talk about it... I think at the root of this for me is that I find such behaviour really brattish, unacceptable, can't kind of get it truly into my head that "he can't help it" (is that true?) But I forgot, in my stressed-up state, the true sequence of events... in fact what sent him ballistic was that I took off a gold star on his "reward chart" (something that actually works quite well) - this is not an established practice between us, not something I have done, but I just felt there had to be some consequence to this endless ignoring of what we had agreed... I should say that bedtime is normally no problem whatsoever, I suspect largely because he is SO tired by then. He accepts to go to bed like a dream usually and is asleep within minutes... Oy vey! Tomorrow is another day, as you say... I feel I/we can't afford too many of these failures... It's not what I want to be creating in his psyche... [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Parent Support Forums
General Parenting
Showdown at the OK Corale
Top