"how to talk" LITE - try this today

[LittleMouseWithCLogsOn]

right hers a little snackette from the how to talk larder for you all to try

no rowing please.

how to engage a childs cooperation

1. describe what you see or descrive the rpolbe, " theres a wet towel ont he bed"

1. GIev information - " th towel is getting the bed wet"

3.say it wiht a word - " the towel"

1. describe how it makes you feel - "I dont liek sleepign in a wet bed"

5 ( if all else fails) Wirte a note" please put me back ont he rack"

poss
"wouldn't it be great if we could just pour and pour and pour until all the milk in the whole world was in your bowl?"

might not work with one so small though.

no he wants ME to be an eagle

he is usually a black labrador

no thast a differnet chapter

called Sarah

ds1 is a lab
when we go for a wlk he does doubel the distance

well my ds fetches sticks as well and helps blind people across the road

thanks Mrs A - think that he might be too little as i don't think he would grasp why that couldn't happen.

in fact it might just give him ideas.....

Lummox put the right amount of milk into a small jug and let him pour it all in

Have tried that F&Z - he likes pouring his own milk in (and water and anything else liquid) but after doing that he then wants the bottle of milk (we're classy in our house) that is on the table.

I guess we could keep putting the bottle back in the fridge, but that would be a pain.

Oh yes

I didn't point out the milk bottle needs to go away because I thought it was

erm

I shall be quiet now

lummox get him up at the sink pouring with various receptacles. towel underneath .

He will love it and it is educational .

My 3 year old has been washing dishes for 3 months she started doing this lol!

F&Z - do you seriously put the milk away every time you use it?

We all have breakfast together - so that would mean that dh & I would have to get the milk out of the fridge every time we wanted a cup of tea/some milk for cereal/etc.

Would you really do that?

Could that possible be too obvious for words?

Mrs A - great idea! We already have a table outside with a box of lots of plastic bits and pieces to pour from, but getting the washing up sounds good.

lummox - get a milk jug, then you only put in htat what is required

like the one pauline fowler has

they are very pretty too

or get ds his OWN milk jug
how much would he love that!

hmm - have just re-read that. possibly my response to F&Z a bit out of an out of proportion reaction to mildly patronising post.

but wouldn't i still have to put the milk away, np?

mind, ds1 would love his own milk jug.

we had one for a while

ok

get a jug - put half a pint in or wahtever you need for the entire breakfast
get ds his own jug
or get everyone inidvidual milk jugs

feel like i'm being difficult here - but ds1 would want to put all the milk from the big jug into his weetabix.

milk jug

we have one for the dds breakfast

put the right amount in

agree
oi enid
go to look liek thread

lummox - you just have to tell him no
give him his own jug and thats that
let him choose one, and tell him the other jug is for everyone else
or get everyone their own jug

Do the talk lummox. Go back to op, so-
there's too much milk in your bowl. your weetabix are flooded. FLOOD. I don't like wading in mild.
Write a note for the next morning stick it on the blardy bottle or milk jug or whatever - 'DON'T POUR TOO MUCH OUT'.

It's easy, honest, and it works. I'm an expert.