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   Margueritem said, 2 months ago

   Dave, another fool in the role of parent…

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   LittleYipScream said, 2 months ago

   Ryan must be one scary brat.

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   Yukoneric said, 2 months ago

   Walk off, the kid will quit screaming.

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   WickedCrazy said, 2 months ago

   Nimrod!

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   Trisha Evenstar said, 2 months ago

   boarding school till he’s 18

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   MisngNOLA said, 2 months ago

   Medical experiments for the litte bugger I say.

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   treBsdrawkcaB said, 2 months ago

   We all seem to be expressing the same frustration! We’re surrounded with people who have NO CLUE how to parent their children and so, rather than risking a little conflict, they kowtow to the child’s every whim, making him/her the Supreme Ruler of the family - and thus teaching him that he/she ALWAYS gets his/her way and can use manipulation and threats to ensure that they stay in power. Adult life then has some VERY rude awakenings in store for them.

   Tantrums are the child’s DESPERATE PLEA for you show - lovingly - that YOU, THE PARENT, are the authority in the family and to correct inappropriate, rude, selfish and sometimes even evil behavior so that it does not become part of their character. Discipline with love! This proves to the child that you love them but reinforces that the rules have to be obeyed. If you just knee-jerk react out of anger, the child doesn’t learn the right lessons (“sometimes Dad can be an ogre…”). We wonder how come SO MANY of today’s children are selfish, arrogant, pig-headed, violent, demanding little terrorists in training!

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   treBsdrawkcaB said, 2 months ago

   …And, yes twright64, sometimes it comes to that. But you do so explaining to the child beforehand that, “I’m so very sorry that YOU HAVE SPECIFICALLY ASKED ME TO PUNISH YOU through your disobedience! I would love to just have good, pleasant times with you but WHEN YOU BREAK THE RULES, YOU MUST PAY THE PENALTY OF THE CONSEQUENCES!”. The biggest challenge is to then be consistent! EVERY time they break the rules, the consequences have to be the same or even more severe so that “it just isn’t worth it” to try to break the rules anymore. The discipline has to be SO unpleasant that, the next time they’re tempted to break the rules, it reminds them of what is in store for them if they do and they make the WISE decision NOT TO.

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   bald 716 said, 2 months ago

   yeah brat, for that tantrum there will be no ice cream until after dinnier

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    Coffee-Turtle said, 2 months ago

    oh! the insanity! :-)

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    Rmom said, 2 months ago

    I agree with what treBsdrawkcaB said!
    My (now 20 year old) son, when he was about 2, and not talking yet, would bite people. Every time he did it when I was around, I would march to where I kept the paddle, and spank his upper thigh. (Otherwise, I would have had to remove the diaper, because it was obvious that he needed more than just a sound effect.) It got to the point where he’d bite me, and then run to point at the paddle. (Which I kept on top of a wall-mounted clock - too high for him to reach even with a chair.) He knew Mom would spank him for that offense, and I did.
    Now he is a fine, trustworthy, young gentleman.

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    OldHipster said, 2 months ago

    After you get over the HERNIA, whoop his little @$$!

    Whoop it good!!

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    LindaTea said, 2 months ago

    I always found the counting method helped; “If you don’t… by the time I count to …, I will … “. FOLLOW THROUGH FIRMLY and they learn “Mom’s counting; she must be serious!

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    Tigger said, 2 months ago

    How about taking him home screaming, then sit him in the corner for 2 hours without TV, Cell, Intenret, or Console Gaming Systems.

    I had 5 blood siblings, 1 foster brother, and 2 young men who were like brothers to me. When our mom used our full name, we knew we were in deep trouble

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    crunkbot said, 2 months ago

    Our child is intelligent, responsible, respectful, kind, self-reliant, polite, thrifty, patriotic and determined.

    If us heathen liberals can raise such, it can’t be that hard.

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    cholldekkgher stenst... said, 2 months ago

    His son has him in complete control. The dad needs to run away from home.

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    lfanterickson said, 2 months ago

    I used to count DOWN from however long I wanted to give the child to obey. They learn fairly soon that there are numbers after 5, but it takes longer to learn there are numbers below zero.

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    Ash said, 2 months ago

    What we parents do and no, we’re not fools, Marg.