I have slapped my dd's face today and I'm upset..

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mine are fitted on the wall too, but I dont have a dh, so have to do that sort of thing myself

last summer there was a parkfest in our town (Germany), we all went, there were fireworks at 10 pm. I was interested to note that almost every child in the town was present up til the fireworks, from babes upwards.

Lucy i do encourage him to read always have done thats why he has a reading ability higher than his years, BUT having asked him to settle down as i wanted to go to bed with the baby and him ignoring me and taking the book away initially and him climbing up to get it what else was i meant to do? short of putting the book in the safe or in bed with me and ds2

do you have to ask?really?you did wrong i hope you realise and wont do it again i do understand there are times when i feel myself start to lose it but if you get to that point just walk away and remind yourself your dd is four your an adult

lol nigh i remember those times well, but hell i don't wanna break my nails now i have a reliable dp hee hee

ladyevenstar my mum gave me the odd slap on the bottom and admittedly it did me no harm but a slap on the faceand i dont think your child learnt anything from you ripping the book other then you have a temper so he better be carful why not just take the book away to be earnt back why show him its ok to destroy things when we are angry?

amy, the OP is long gone and doesnt need flaming, this is an old thread and me and lady are having a barney over a ripped book.

Still don't think you should have ripped it, but it does sound like he was being difficult, i guess the big question is, did it do the trick? Was he sufficiently chastened or did he kick off??

Lucy he went to sleep and tonight he went to bed at 9 and went to sleep after 30 mins of reading.

Amy i didn't slap him on the face.

Lucy it seems to have don the trick and yes i will eventually replace it BUT he will have to earn it...now what chores can i get him to do....... chimney sweeping maybe...

Amy for the record i would love to be shown 100 people without a temper bet i could show you 5 with a temper to every 1 person without.

i know you didnt but you were kind of condoning it or mabey i took the post wrong and ill be the first to admit to having a bit of a temper i just try very hard not to show it to my ds and discipline in a calm but very firm way

i do keep cool most of the time but i wanted to go to sleep last night, i don't only have ds1 to deal with i have ds2 6 months as well n he keeps running me over grrrrrrrrrrr who suggested a baby walker????????????

Dear God-that's the kind of yobbish behaviour that I'd be mortified if my DC's displayed

i'll shut up then

Soap, i know but i keep reminding myself ds2 is only 6 months he won't be a speeding baby walker rider for too long

LOL Lucy, he actually asked to go to bed tonight

And the more so, if they thought it was something to joke about!

oh gawd here we go again, soapbox i ripped a book nd proved to him i would carry out the warning, it is not something i have ever done before nor would i do again hell i can't be wasting money on ripping books up. but it did prove to him i was not playing a game

Nigh got 6 month old laughing at me i just told him he is going on naughty step if he doesn't go to sleep and he started laughing lol. my poor feet are bruised something rotten

mine were all terrible sleepers under a year. I was co-sleeping, so used to pretend that I was going off to bed, so they always dropped off next to me. It worked, until I started going to sleep myself for real.

Nigh i have co slept since he was first born, but i think he over excited today with his new walker

bless him. get him upstairs and the light off quick before OverTired starts!!

lady the more mobile they are the more trouble they are imo!i remember thinking ds would never walk and now i spend my life saying could you not sit down,just for one minute plleeeaaseee

lol nigh i am in bed with him now watching steptoe and son