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What works for your oppositional & defiant child?
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<blockquote data-quote="KTMom91" data-source="post: 161858" data-attributes="member: 4040"><p>First of all, sending you hugs. Your little darling sounds very much like Miss KT at that age. As far as the choices, maybe you're offering too many. Miss KT had two options, with the third being nothing. For cup color...red, blue, or go thirsty. Don't waste your energy trying to reason with him. He's 6, and he isn't being reasonable. If he can't handle the responsibilities of riding a bike...sorry, kiddo, guess you're too young for this, we'll try again when you're 7. Then put it up so he can't get to it. Throws the bike helmet over the fence like Miss KT did? Tough tofu, kiddo, better earn some money to buy a new one. Doesn't like the ice cream? Fine, I do, so I'll eat it. Don't like dinner? Breakfast will be about 7 tomorrow morning. The consequences of choosing unacceptable behaviors have to hurt, or they aren't consequences, and they also need to be directly related to the offense. I don't mean beat him within an inch of his life, but there has to be something there to motivate changes. </p><p></p><p>Hang in there!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KTMom91, post: 161858, member: 4040"] First of all, sending you hugs. Your little darling sounds very much like Miss KT at that age. As far as the choices, maybe you're offering too many. Miss KT had two options, with the third being nothing. For cup color...red, blue, or go thirsty. Don't waste your energy trying to reason with him. He's 6, and he isn't being reasonable. If he can't handle the responsibilities of riding a bike...sorry, kiddo, guess you're too young for this, we'll try again when you're 7. Then put it up so he can't get to it. Throws the bike helmet over the fence like Miss KT did? Tough tofu, kiddo, better earn some money to buy a new one. Doesn't like the ice cream? Fine, I do, so I'll eat it. Don't like dinner? Breakfast will be about 7 tomorrow morning. The consequences of choosing unacceptable behaviors have to hurt, or they aren't consequences, and they also need to be directly related to the offense. I don't mean beat him within an inch of his life, but there has to be something there to motivate changes. Hang in there! [/QUOTE]
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