Just a Bit Tired

[billroper]

We've survived the last SpaceTime rehearsal prior to our WindyCon show, despite some of the cast being sick and a lot of the cast being tired. The show should be good. Of course, we do have to make it so. :)

Katie, meanwhile, decided to do the stupid last night. She climbed onto the couch with Julie, which was just fine. Subsequently pushing her sister off onto the floor and smiling about it was not.

I checked to make sure that Julie was ok -- she was, babies are pretty resilient that way and she'd hit flat from a short fall. Then I grabbed Katie, tossed her over my shoulder, yelled at her, and spanked her on the way upstairs to dumping her unceremoniously in her crib. No real damage was done to her bottom through the diaper, but she was very upset by the indignity of the whole process. And the fact that her favorite blanket was still downstairs.

We will manage to teach Katie to be civilized before we are done.

Sooner will be better than later.

Comments

[scarfman]

The deadline is her eighteenth birthday...

[kizoku42.livejournal.com]

No, the deadline is somewhere under 12. By then, you've either managed it or it's hopeless. 12 to 18 is fine tuning.

[catalana.livejournal.com]

She'll learn the boundaries eventually. *hug* Won't be fun for anyone in the process, but she'll get there.

I'm sick as a dog today. I guess I got the SpaceTime bug without having the fun of getting to go...

[billroper]

Thanks!

I hope you feel better soon.

[mia-mcdavid.livejournal.com]

I remember the time J pushed T down the stairs. I was too livid to do anything except say "Go to your room," and then go and check Tom. J was pretty daunted; he'd never seen me that mad . . .

[shrewreader.livejournal.com]

Can I just say that your icon is totally win???

Spacetime and Kids

[angka.livejournal.com]

I'm looking forward to seeing the show at Windy. Wil and I are planning on being there. Thanks, in advance, for all the hard work on what's sure to be a fun show!

As to training kids... I don't have much experience with that. The closest I've had to do is train dogs to be decent family members. We recently adopted a 2-year old doberman from a Illinois Doberman Rescue. He's a decent dog, but he doesn't have as good a vocabulary as I'm used to in a 2-year old doberman, so it's making teaching him the rules a lot harder. Nowhere near the same situation you have -- but there are definitely parallels, so I feel for you!

Re: Spacetime and Kids

[jrittenhouse.livejournal.com]

In our case, the twins are *enormously* simpatico, and simply don't fight hardly at all. Very minor out-bossy episodes which very quickly blow over. The other Mere, on the other hand, is awfully rough on her baby sister.

[sourceoftrouble.livejournal.com]

You might (or might not) want to consider a place other than the bed for discipline. Some kids get into the "don't want to go to bed" issues as they think they're being punished.

[billroper]

Normally, I would have put her into the downstairs bathroom for a timeout. However, it was occupied at the moment...

kid raising

[janmagic.livejournal.com]

was it a dilberate push? if so she may have felt her being on the couch alone was much more important than any messages she recieved from her parents about being careful with julie.

please consider the book " raising the headstrong child" or something like it

another one i saw was " how to talk to your children so they actually listen" or was it "how to talk to your children so they will hear you"

I see way too many parents who say "nice, nice " to their kids and never get across the message of "we do NOT behave that way. " unfortunatly to raise the child with the latter philosophy it takes constant training correction love praise limits etc etc, however the children i see are a joy to be around.

and bottom line some kids are easy and others are hard.

see ya at windy

[purpleranger.livejournal.com]

Is this the first time for something like this?

[robot-grrl.livejournal.com]

I think you did an excellent job. I think you got the point across to her about what isn't acceptable. One time, very soon after we first got him, Derrick wouldn't stop driving his R/V truck right through a pile of debris that Ron was sweeping up. After the second warning Ron lifted Derrick into the air and plopped him down in a chair and placed the truck up where he see it but not reach it. Ron didn't really say anything more, but it took Derrick a couple of minutes to process this. He started to wail, but the point was taken. Firm, but loving.