Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.

how do i make my brat child who is five be good?

Update:

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.

Update 2:

The only reason I call him a brat is because I do not have a nice word to call him.

18 Answers

Relevance
  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    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

  • 1 decade ago

    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.

  • 1 decade ago

    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.

  • 1 decade ago

    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.

    Source(s): Mommy of three :) Avid reader about how to handle children.
  • How do you think about the answers? You can sign in to vote the answer.
  • 1 decade ago

    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.

  • 1 decade ago

    First start by setting house rules and explain them to your child, and if the rules get broken and follow through with consequences, like taking away a toy, watching tv (basicly something your child enjoys) and ALWAYS explain why you are doind what you are doing so that in the future your child won't make the same mistake.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    It is not nice to call ur own child a brat. I would say you are a terrible mother. I can see where he gets his bad behavior, you! What cold hearted person would call her own child a harse word?! Just Talk to him about why he does the things he does and go see a counsalor.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    "The only reason I call him a brat is because I do not have a nice word to call him." There's the problem right there. CRAPPY PARENTING.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Calling your kid a brat is really positive!

    You should have been teaching manners and behaving from the start. This is because of bad parenting skills. You can change them if you want, but you will have to work at it.

    Source(s): Ash
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Try not calling him a brat.

Still have questions? Get your answers by asking now.