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

[closer-to-fine.livejournal.com]

Put her in time out until she picks them up?

Nonchalantly explain that picking up toys is just something we do, like eating dinner and brushing teeth?

"Race" her to see who can get the most picked up first?

Make a sticker chart and award her fun stickers when she accomplishes tasks?