Dd is 3. If can tell her she's got to sit on the stair for 2 minutes cos she has done something naughty. I can be calm about it, tell her what she has done wrong, tell her she has to sit still and be quiet until the kitchen timer pings, and I go in the kitchen next door.
Then she runs up and down the stairs, goes back to her toys, or tries lying upside down on the stairs or whatever. If I keep taking her back to the stairs, thats great entertainment. If I send her to her room instead, then we have the same thing with her running out of her room. Or she stays in her room and plays happily with her toys for half an hour...
How do you make it work? How do you make them stay there without them turning it into a game?
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how do you do the "naughty step" thing?
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fruitful · 06/07/2005 21:30
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