Discipline

tiffbomb

Timeouts are no longer working in the tiffbomb household.  He laughs when I put my stern voice on.  I have tried counting to 3 but he associates that with fun stuff (1,2,3 GO!  In fact, if I start counting to 3 he will say GO!) I feel like I have no idea how to make this kid take me seriously.  

The stuff that he is doing is normal toddler stuff (throwing toys, testing limits, occasional hitting, etc). When he throws toys, he gets two warnings and then the toy goes into timeout on the dining table.  The thing is, this kid has so many toys that it doesn't really phase him if one of them gets taken away.  

What have you found that works?  

cantalopes24

Unfortunately at this age there isn't much you can do. We do a lot of positive reward and natural/logical consequences but if she's throwing or hitting (not just banging around) with her toys then they ALL get put in time out not just the "offending" toy. Distraction and redirection are what we mainly do.

tiffbomb

Thanks ladies! 

jwls84

We do time outs for serious incidents, mainly something that can hurt him or anyone else. Sometimes they work other times they don't, it's hard at this age. I still aim to use redirection and positive reinforcement...

Fianschneid

We do polite ignoring. We try to help her before she loses it but when DD becomes a boneless mess, we move her somewhere safe, tell her we can't help her when she's screaming/doesn't use her words and go about our business.

She'll either freakout for a few more minutes, start playing/entertaining herself or slowly make her way over to us and ask for what she wanted with words.

It's our way of letting her know that being nasty isn't the way to get what she wants.

andthatmakes4

I just hit mine back. Not really!!

We are still trying to figure it out also. What works for a few days, may cause laughter the next. Good luck to us all!!