I’ve never been so excited to punish my Son!
Today my Son had a bad day. He was probably just a bit tired and hungry, but he decided to throw an epic tantrum while we were out visiting his cousins.
This is usually the highlight of his weeks, having a few other friends and all kinds of new toys to play with!
There’s them having fun at a recent birthday party! But alas not today!
Today he had a melt down, after attempting to reason with him, which of course never works it was time to instill a punishment. Now I didn’t want him to ruin my day and I had yard work to do so I took a risk and came up with a punishment!
I wasn’t sure just how it would work and if he would just protest the entire time and make thing worse.
Of course he did a bit of protesting, but in the end he served his punishment and had to pick a whole bucket of rocks from the garden today!
I worked in getting out the sticks out and pointed out a few of the bigger rocks for him. At times I added a few stones to his bucket but when he was protesting the most, I was putting all the rocks I found out onto the road which usually spurred him into action.
In the end hopefully he learned his lesson, although I’m not sure all these meltdowns can really be averted
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That is actually a nice healthy punishment. It should teach him to be helpful, so that's a good one, Pheli 😊
Thanks, it wasn't too bad, I just hope I can convince him to help again another day now that that was also a punishment.
Not easy to reason with a little one , but they do understand consequences. Looks like he did a good job. 🐓🐓
That's for sure, no reasoning with them, specially not when they are in that mood.
This is a good one. When he's having a melt down he is unable to think with crazy emotions and feelings of anger. Getting out and performing a basic task with Dad isn't really a punishment - it's a therapy to help him calm down and retune his thoughts with Dad by his side. Well done!! 😊
Thx, I never though about it that way, but it sure does make alot of sense! #dadwin!
Yes, sometimes a little punishment like that is necessary. I know my girls had a semi- meltdown yesterday at Six Flags so I made them stay out of the pool for awhile
yeah, that sounds like it would work too,
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