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Thursday, December 4, 2008
Phases of Trevor
Lately Trevor has been driving me crazy. When I ask him to do something, he ignores me, or if I ask him to STOP doing something he does it more. When I yell at him and put him in timeout for being naughty he gets all mopey and says "Mom, your breaking my heart". So its all MY fault that he's in trouble and having to suffer the consequences. I'm about ready to pull my hair out! He's been doing it for the last few weeks and no amount of attention or positive praise I give him makes any difference. Does anyone else have this frustration?! We've talked about choices and consequences until I'm blue in the face and he even tries to use it against me...little turkey. My mom says I have Justin (my brother) reincarnated, so I guess I'd better fasten my seat belt because I'm in for a rough ride...{sigh}
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Oh dear. I'm dying inside because I'll be there in a couple of years except an Anya reincarnate. Ahg!
S has been going through a pretty ugly time himself.
We had a nice 45 minute tantrum a couple of days ago where he was throwing pillows at me and telling me I was "wasting his time."
Nice.
Ignore, don't give attention to the bad. That's my mantra.
I think it's the Allen side - I have Zoe...she's a little like that. She'll test me all the time to see if I meant what I said. and I HAVE to follow through. No empty threats. Final solution? I stick her in the coat closet. Anytime she is doing something crazy I just point and say "go". It actually is calming to her because it's dark, closed in, and not as noisy. But I know that wouldn't work with other kids - they are so unique. Yay us!!!
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