My DS (7) has been getting increasingly cheeky and rude the last couple of weeks. I've been telling him that its not acceptable etc. Anyway today (after spending the afternoon with his dad, where he usually comes back a bit OTT) he was rude and I shouted at him it was unacceptable and he had to have a timeout. I don't shout very often and I can count on one hand the number of timeouts I've used. Anyway, as he sat on the timeout he said he needed the toilet. I thought he was just trying to get out of the timeout so I told him he could wait. He then wet himself and I feel awful. He does have a tendency to leave going to the toilet to the last moment but I hadn't seen any 'dancing' signs prior to the timeout. If I really had thought he needed to go I of course would have let him go.
Since then he has returned to his loving self - I'm sure I was right to give him a timeout to show I mean business, but I feel awful that I didn't let him go to the toilet
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SingleMum01 · 21/03/2010 19:47
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