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

[hallerlake.livejournal.com]

Take them away. (Put them in your storage unit or just out of reach.)

Require her to behave for a couple days to get those toys back.

A couple days of misbehavior can leave her with a couple weeks of "you must behave" getting back a toy every couple days.

[ellison.livejournal.com]

This was the approach I was going to recommend.