What happens when you punish (for want of a better word) your child for something they have done wrong?
The reason I ask is my 6.5 year old dd seems to have NO understanding of the fact that shes done wrong.
Yesterdays example was dd2 was walking past dd1 and dd1 kicked her. So I removed her from the room, attempted to get her to sit beside me for 5 mins for time out, she struggled and kicked and was screaming "im missing my video, im missing my video". I was like "Your meant to be missing your video, you should not kick dd2. Sit here quietly for 2 minutes then you can go and watch the rest"
But on no, struggle she did scream she did, so I went and switched the video off.
More screaming about the video which I totally ignored, with a few comments about why the video was switched off and about 30 mins later she had calmed down...but there was no remorse about what she had done, just anger at me for switching the video off.
This isnt a one off, this is how she is.
I would like her to say sorry(which she spits out if I ask which annoys me even more so I didnt even ask her to yesterday) and not just be thinking Im missing out on my video/toy/sweet.
Is that too much to ask????!!!!
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What happens when you punish your child for something they have done?
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charliecat · 09/08/2004 09:27
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