Parenting

[captain_slinky]

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:

• 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)

So far, nothing has worked :(

Comments

[sasjhwa.livejournal.com]

You did all that? I hate to tell you, but she owns you.

What she is doing is perfectly normal at that age. Caleb is turning 5 in a couple of weeks and he's just barely starting to come out of it. Don't stress over it if she doesn't obey your every wish. There should be consequences, sure. But she has reached the age where beating Daddy at the game is more important than doing what she's told.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

She eventually got them all picked up, it just took HOURS to do it and lots of crying :)