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post #1 of 5
4/23/06 at 9:34am
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i need some advice on lil Raymond. lately he has been having a very bad habit on saying NO to me for everything or he will just throw himself and act like a baby. at first i thought maybe it was the craving for attention since Destiny arrival but i dont think its that anymore.. he loves her to pieces and is always showing it so i know its not that..


but anyways, if i tell him to pick up his toys or put his shoes on ill hear a big NO yelled at me ive already talked to him about how thats not nice to be saying that and its not a nice word to say back to mommy and daddy but he still does it. People has tolden me to smack him in his mouth but im like noooo i dont even know if that will work.. does anyone have problems with their boys acting up like this or is this just a phase.. hes like living the terrible fours.. he was such a good baby when he was 2. i started thinking that maybe its becasue hes been home with me lately and not daycare, could that be a reason. we would like to work on him with this problem and im open for suggestions.
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post #2 of 5
4/23/06 at 10:44am
TJ does that occasionally and I just do something similar to Liz. Don't back down, don't give up. If the TV is on, it gets turned off. If he's busy playing with something, I take it away. I make him give me his undivided attention, then the battle is usually over.
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post #3 of 5
4/23/06 at 10:53am
Zachary is doing the same thing lately so it must be a stage they go through. I do like the other ladies and stand my ground and more often than not he gets teary and upset that I'm mad at him and backs down. Haley was the exact oposite and the more I got upset the angrier and more defiant she got.
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post #4 of 5
4/23/06 at 11:01am
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i feel much better, i was beginning to think that it was me and i wasnt doing a good job of raising him. im glad it just a stage than. im going to try the standoff and taking away, thanks ladies!
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post #5 of 5
4/23/06 at 8:01pm
Once in a while I get "NO" from DS (he's 6 now, but he's done it periodically for a few years), especially on the "clean your room" request. We now have an agreement. He is welcome to refuse. However, then *I* will clean his room. I usually make it about 3 steps up the stairs before he runs streaking past me to clean it up before I get there. You see, when I clean up, his toys magically disappear.
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