Dd1 started school this week and has spent the meal time having the mother of all tantrums screaming and shouting. I have never seen her so bad. DH did the naughty step with her but is so black and white about it. I let him do it but then something else happened and my instinct was that dd was beside herself and needed calming before any punishment would work. I told her in a stern voice to stop the noise and ignored her. At this point DH came down from the bath (where he was with dd2) and whisked dd1 away from the table saying he had warned her that any more shouting would mean another trip to the naughty step. I totally disagreed and actually stood up to stop him and took her from him and put her back at the table. We then had a mini stilted row trying for dd not to hear / understand that we were disagreeing. DD1 was so shocked (this has never happened) that she stopped kicking off ate the rest of her tea and is now having some fruit for pudding.
I am of the opinion that her starting school this week has changed lots of things and want to make allowances for her. DH is more black and white and thinks her discipline should be maintained. I just feel sorry for her. Am I being soft? Do you make exceptions? Help please. We will obv talk when children in bed as realise how bad to disagree about this sort of thing in front of the children etc etc. Will check back after I have bathed dd1
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If you have a form of punishment ie naughty step do you use it regardless even if you think your child is over tired or hungry or there is some reason for the misbehaviour?
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VanillaPumpkin · 13/01/2008 17:31
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