I have taken away everything like toys, tv, movies,and outside time. He is to sit and do nothing. But this only gets him in to more trouble. Hitting his brothers, throwing balls in the house, kicking doors. He had been kick out of preschool because he punched a teacher. He was only 4 then. I am trying to get his behavior in check so that he does not get kicked out of Kindergarden.
2007-02-11T16:27:01Z
The only reason I call him a brat is because I do not have a nice word to call him.
angel2eyes012007-02-10T15:38:41Z
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my son is five also and he has been a brat a lot what i find that helps with is behavior is i just ignore him i have been threw taking toys away spanking i find it doesn't really help that much. once he realizes that i am not going to get mad and yell and him. He gets bored with it. so when he is good i make sure i notice it and let him know i do. try that it is working for me It did take a few days but if u stick with it you will see a difference
Well it sounds like they must have picked up some things from you since you are referring them as a brat child. You have to become the role model. I know I do not have the best child in the world. He is extremely hyperactive and since I have become pregnant he was having trouble with that. But I have recently gotten things straight with him and he has made a major turnaround. If he were bad in school, I would take away his gamecube and playstation. If he talks back I put him in the corner for 5 mins. This has been working for me. The child may just need some extra attention. Read a book to them, watch a movie together. Good luck.
well, 1st i must ask what is your discipline policy, 2nd is how often do you follow through with it, 3rd how is your own patience level, 4rth is there a chores chart and a list of unacceptable behaviors also with a list of treats for a certain about of acceptable behaviors, 5th how much bonding time do you spend with your child. if you think you need help in any of these areas 1,2, and 4 can be helped by watching the nanny or something like that. 3 can be helped by just talking about what makes you impatient or mad with your spouse especially doing that while also writing it down so that you can see what upsets you( some of it might be silly, i know from personal experience). 5 can normally be helped by trying to find out stuff about your child by playing goldfish or reading stories at night, if you don't think that will work your husband might know your(plural meaning you and your husband's child) child better. most fathers are better mothers than women, another thing i know from experience.
First of all - you may want to consider the "WHY" of the behavior. Children are acting out because of a reason and they need your attention. Changes in the family, living arrangments, schools, daycare, etc will set off poor behavior.
Refrain from calling your child names and read book sources such as Nanny 911. Watch the TV shows and this will clue you in as how to POSITIVELY discipline instead of fighting a brat. Children need structure and rules and a plan of positive rewards system.
Instead of focusing on all of the bad the child is doing, learn to redirect your thinking to what the child IS doing well and call attention to it. The extra praise works wonders for warding off bad behavior. After going through two teenagers, this works wonders!
Please educate yourself and get some help or you will lose that beautiful sweet baby of yours to gangs, drugs and who knows what else, because they will listen to him - simply because you are not.
i got 1 too. she's already been sent to the Principal's office and several notes home and she's only been in school 3 months. but this is what I've been doing and it's been helping. taking a special TV show away when she does something wrong or put her in her room. I remind her of what she did and say we don't act like that then is she does it again i punish her. i also play the reverse roll as in how would u feel or why u doing that. redirect the additude. i also give her things to do when i see she is starting to act up like here come help mommy and i give her a wet wash cloth to wash the frig down or the woodwork something to redirect her mind. it's like trying to get them to focus on good stuff rather than spending the time to be bad.