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DD broke...

DD broke our 50 inch 3D plasma... DH was watching cartoons with her in the morning and "the bad guy" appeared on screen and she hit the TV with the leg of her little piano, yelling "bad!"
She cracked the screen and now it's all black. I put her in time out, and DH yelled at her pretty bad. Then she said she was sorry and kissed him. I cried!!! Hahahahaha
I hope she doesn't do the same with the new TV :S Do you think a 2 yo is to little to understand not to touch the TV when I install it?
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Re: DD broke...

  • Well, do you think she understood what she did in the first place and why y'all yelled at her and put her in time out? She's 2. 
  • I know... I understand why she broke it (It's the bad guy's fault!, hahaha), but I don't know what would happen if she breaks another one...
    Thankfully DH was with her when she broke it, if  I had been the one with her it probably would have been MY fault somehow. Sigh...
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  • pevilapevila member
    edited December 2013
    KateMW said:
    Well, do you think she understood what she did in the first place and why y'all yelled at her and put her in time out? She's 2. 
    She understood in that moment that she shouldn't touch the TV. I made her sit at the foot of the bed for one whole minute. What I don't know is if she'll remember next time... She's always trying to touch things she's not allowed to touch, though. 
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  • cjcouple said:
    can you mount it on the wall?
    It's mounted, but low :S
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  • Hav=Fath said:
    You should get an otter box for it!
    Hahahahaha!
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  • Hav=Fath said:
    KateMW said:
    Well, do you think she understood what she did in the first place and why y'all yelled at her and put her in time out? She's 2. 
    I don't think anyone means to yell at their kid, but honestly if my LO broke our big TV I'd probably lose my temper momentarily, I'm very human.

    I totally think a 2 year old can understand when they've done something wrong, like breaking a television and having to go to timeout.
    I know DH felt bad after yelling at her, but I think it can happen to even the best parent. I do think she understood, though. She says "The TV is broken!" And when I ask who broke it, she says "Sophia." I f we hadn't said anything to her, the possibility of her doing it again would be greater, IMO. 
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  • Um I don't know if she understands but I do know both DH and I would go ape shit crazy if one of our kids broke our tv. Besides our house and cars it is the most expensive thing we own.
  • If Ds hit the tv with something i would also yell, even if it didn't break. It would just be my first reaction to him doing that out of nowhere. If it broke... Yep time out forever. Lol We do a lot of positive discipline in our house but some things just need a bigger reaction to get him attention.

    I think she can learn to not touch it again. I would talk to her when you bring the tv home from the store and explain the rules. Then remind her every time you think she is getting to close to it. And if she touches it discipline (whatever style you discipline in).
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  • Um I don't know if she understands but I do know both DH and I would go ape shit crazy if one of our kids broke our tv. Besides our house and cars it is the most expensive thing we own.
    But at 2 years old? It's just a damn TV. I mean, I have a crazy temper but at two? No way.

    That's not saying that I think OP is a horrible parent or anything. It just seems like a crazy overreaction to me. 
  • KateMW said:
    Um I don't know if she understands but I do know both DH and I would go ape shit crazy if one of our kids broke our tv. Besides our house and cars it is the most expensive thing we own.
    But at 2 years old? It's just a damn TV. I mean, I have a crazy temper but at two? No way.

    That's not saying that I think OP is a horrible parent or anything. It just seems like a crazy overreaction to me. 

    Dude, I am a crazy crunchy parent who doesnt yell, say no, do time outs or any kind of punishment and I think my knee jerk reaction if my kids broke something like that would be to yell. I've lost my temper for less.
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  • letranger said:
    I think a knee jerk what did you do or yelling of name happens but I wouldn't berate a kid until they were hysterical.

    I didn't read anywhere that the kid was berated until she was hysterically sobbing...
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  • KateMW said:
    Um I don't know if she understands but I do know both DH and I would go ape shit crazy if one of our kids broke our tv. Besides our house and cars it is the most expensive thing we own.
    But at 2 years old? It's just a damn TV. I mean, I have a crazy temper but at two? No way.

    That's not saying that I think OP is a horrible parent or anything. It just seems like a crazy overreaction to me. 

    Dude, I am a crazy crunchy parent who doesnt yell, say no, do time outs or any kind of punishment and I think my knee jerk reaction if my kids broke something like that would be to yell. I've lost my temper for less.
    I've lost my temper for less, but not with a 2 year old. That's just so damn young. I wouldn't offer her cookies, Hav, but I wouldn't scream at her until she cried. Honestly, if I didn't mount a TV high enough to where a 2 year old couldn't get to it or make sure I was teaching them to not touch if it had to be low, I would consider it more my fault than theirs. It's not so much the yelling that gets me, it's the age.
  • Hav=Fath said:
    KateMW said:
    Um I don't know if she understands but I do know both DH and I would go ape shit crazy if one of our kids broke our tv. Besides our house and cars it is the most expensive thing we own.
    But at 2 years old? It's just a damn TV. I mean, I have a crazy temper but at two? No way.

    That's not saying that I think OP is a horrible parent or anything. It just seems like a crazy overreaction to me. 
    If you wouldn't yell at your 2 year old for breaking a TV (not saying you'd think it through and then yell) how would you likely handle the situation? "Oh man, you broke our TV, that stinks! Let's go have some cookies"?
    Well, considering it was an accident and they're 2, I would be mad, but what the hell are you expecting the kid to do at two? Work it off?
  • edited December 2013
    Lesson learned...put anything you don't want her touching out of reach. Also, I'm with Kate on this one. I'm far from a perfect parent but it doesn't sound like she did it on purpose and at 2 there is absolutely no ducking way she would know that the tv would break or how bad it would be.

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  • Ok, so I think this got a littLe bit out of control. DD got yelled at, and then we explained what had happened. I NEVER said that se cried (or that we made her sob histerically, LOL). I bet It was pretty hard for DH and he felt like a jerk for yelling at her, but I also think that no reaction would have been negative too. DD has a pretty good memory and we can remind her of what happened last time she touched the TV.
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  • You forget I already had one who broke shit...she's the other cute ones in the pictures on IG.
  • Hav=Fath said:
    KateMW said:
    You forget I already had one who broke shit...she's the other cute ones in the pictures on IG.
    And we must also forget that you're so much of a better parent than the rest of us. Silly us.
    Maybe if you wrote it down, you wouldn't forget.
  • Hav=Fath said:
    KateMW said:
    You forget I already had one who broke shit...she's the other cute ones in the pictures on IG.
    And we must also forget that you're so much of a better parent than the rest of us. Silly us.
    I didn't hear her say that. I think her perspective of 2 is a little different than mine. I'm living 2 right now and I have completely different expectations of her than a baby. I know what she, unlike a baby, understands and can follow instructions.
    I do too, I also am living with a 2 year old. Everyone else here seemed to commiserate with Pevila for having had a less than perfect parent moment (or her H) except Kate who several times said she'd never ever holler at a 2 year old. It was rude for me to say but people say rude crap on here all the time, it's the bump.
    So bc I disagree I'm not allowed to say it? Sorry, OP, everybody else agrees, I think it's an awesome idea to yell over something like this. Rock on. Hope you get a new TV soon.
  • We would yell simply at the thought of being without a tv for a day.  If it was football Sunday I would have an anxiety attack
    I never said I wouldn't freak out! BTW, were you by any chance at the last Eagles game with all the snow? So cool!
  • You are certainly able to disagree. Everyone doesn't handle things the same and that's fine. I don't understand why you disagreeing is an issue.
    Because Hav enjoys trying to make me out to be the bad guy as much as possible after PictureGate2013. It's cool, I'm good with it. 
  • I didn't say that AG. I said I wouldn't yell about that. I never said I hadn't, won't, don't lose my temper over stupid shit either. Talk about reading between the lines. I said I thought it was crazy to get mad at a young toddler over breaking something that she clearly had no idea was off limits in the first place. 
  • I didn't say that AG. I said I wouldn't yell about that. I never said I hadn't, won't, don't lose my temper over stupid shit either. Talk about reading between the lines. I said I thought it was crazy to get mad at a young toddler over breaking something that she clearly had no idea was off limits in the first place. 
    But I think it was an initial gut reaction, and totally normal. Sure she probably felt bad, and two is super young but sometimes you do just loose it. I think there is a difference to being really mad and just yelling as an initial reaction.

  • I didn't say that AG. I said I wouldn't yell about that. I never said I hadn't, won't, don't lose my temper over stupid shit either. Talk about reading between the lines. I said I thought it was crazy to get mad at a young toddler over breaking something that she clearly had no idea was off limits in the first place. 
    But I think it was an initial gut reaction, and totally normal. Sure she probably felt bad, and two is super young but sometimes you do just loose it. I think there is a difference to being really mad and just yelling as an initial reaction.
    Probably so, as I stated a couple of posts down, I don't think she's a horrible person or a bad parent by any means. I do think it's nuts to yell though. It's just my opinion on one subject, which has of course been blown out of proportion by Hav so she gets to point out what a horrible bitch I am. :)
  • KateMW said:
    We would yell simply at the thought of being without a tv for a day.  If it was football Sunday I would have an anxiety attack
    I never said I wouldn't freak out! BTW, were you by any chance at the last Eagles game with all the snow? So cool!
    Not only was I there, I was with Amynumbers!  It was so.much.fun.  We were watching it and thinking "I can't even believe I am seeing this".  Of course I will remember it fondly since we won lol.  But it was super cool, we had a great time
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  • Am i the only one that believe in teaching kids not to touch things instead of putting breakables out of reach? Out tv is on a tv stand. The way our walls are we cannot mount it. It is within Ds reach but he has been taught to not touch it. Same with all the breakables at both grandparents houses that he is at regularly. Of course he will occasionally go to grab/touch something out of curiosity. But a simple "look don't touch" stops him. And he is wild man.
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  • Am i the only one that believe in teaching kids not to touch things instead of putting breakables out of reach? Out tv is on a tv stand. The way our walls are we cannot mount it. It is within Ds reach but he has been taught to not touch it. Same with all the breakables at both grandparents houses that he is at regularly. Of course he will occasionally go to grab/touch something out of curiosity. But a simple "look don't touch" stops him. And he is wild man.

    I am with you from the time our kids can crawl we are extra firm they stay far away from the electronics. When we start at 7 months by the time they are two they take the long way around the TV;).
  • Mrs.Hizzo said:
    Here's where I get obnoxious and pretend to know your lyfe, Kate. I think you would yell. I think you truly believe you wouldn't, but you've had, what, 8 years or so for toddlerhood to get that mellow glow of nostalgia.

    In fact, I believe that everyone who posts here regularly would yell, with the possible exception of one or two of you. If I could set up an experiment where we all had two-year-olds who slammed a toy piano into an expensive TV, I'm betting that something like 98% of us would at the very least screech "OH MY GAWWWWWWD WHAT DID YOU JUST DO?????????"
    yes, i would have said the last line...probably just like that too!
  • i am SO confused about how it's more important to keep a tv out of reach (and you're an idiot if you don't) but it's "overkill" to put up a gate by stairs. we can teach them to stay away from both but obviously things still happen....but i'm way more concerned with serious injury or death from falling down stairs than having to buy a new tv. 

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  • i am SO confused about how it's more important to keep a tv out of reach (and you're an idiot if you don't) but it's "overkill" to put up a gate by stairs. we can teach them to stay away from both but obviously things still happen....but i'm way more concerned with serious injury or death from falling down stairs than having to buy a new tv. 

    slinking away.
    Did I miss the gate conversation?
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  • KateMW said:
    Mrs.Hizzo said:
    Here's where I get obnoxious and pretend to know your lyfe, Kate. I think you would yell. I think you truly believe you wouldn't, but you've had, what, 8 years or so for toddlerhood to get that mellow glow of nostalgia.

    In fact, I believe that everyone who posts here regularly would yell, with the possible exception of one or two of you. If I could set up an experiment where we all had two-year-olds who slammed a toy piano into an expensive TV, I'm betting that something like 98% of us would at the very least screech "OH MY GAWWWWWWD WHAT DID YOU JUST DO?????????"
    yes, i would have said the last line...probably just like that too!
    Yep and I would be lieing if I said that an obscenity would not be thrown in there.
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  • I'm really confused about how your 2 year old threw a piano.
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  • I thought it was a leg of something?
  • Do you guys all have tiny two year olds or something? Our TV is wall mounted but the combo of him and some type of hittin' stick would for sure reach it, and if it was up any higher we'd all get stiff necks watching it.  As for teaching him not to do things, I'm pretty sure everyone does that anyway, right?  But the fact is, two year olds are assholes who test limits, and shit happens.  @pevila I had to laugh at the fact that you were relieved it happened with your DH instead of you - it would have been the same deal here, if it had happened under my watch I'd consider leaving town ;)

    Also, definitely in camp "yell at the two year old."  It comes from a combination of things.  My parents were yellers, so it's kind of my go-to primal response and it takes a lot of mental effort to stop, regroup, and respond constructively.  With all of the baby stress and lack of sleep, I use my caveman brain more often than not.  And there is a huge frustration element, because my kid is very verbal and will chatter away forever in sentences but doesn't listen or absorb anywhere near as much as he can say.  I've told him a thousand times not to touch the dishwasher, but whenever we're in the kitchen he will still run his hands down it, often while saying "I don't touch the dishwasher."  So clearly he knows not to, and can say it, but doesn't effing DO IT.  

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