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captain_slinky) wrote2010-02-15 04:55 pm
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Parenting
I am POSITIVE thaat I was never as difficult as this when I was a kid!
All day long I've been trying to get Molly to pick up her Tinker Toys. I have tried:
All day long I've been trying to get Molly to pick up her Tinker Toys. I have tried:
- Asking politely
- Asking firmly
- Trying to make it a game
- Helping/showing exactly what I want her to do
- Threatening to throw them away
- Telling tales of when *I* was a child and Grammy would lock me in my bedroom with no dinner and no bathroom till it was cleaned up
- Threatening to do the afore mentioned "Grammy Treatment"
- Offering rewards such as toys/candy
- Ignoring her till she cleans them up (the latest strategy)