I’m at the point where I’d like them to feel hurt, so maybe they’d learn what they’re doing.
I had three cups of coffee, and then I found some leftovers and spinach.
Hockeybughow was such an easy kid to reprimand. He responded best to reasoning, and was never in trouble. If I allowed him to think of the consequences of his behavior, he always chose the best way.
Lablady, on the other hand, only responded to logical consequences. She couldn’t relate taking away TV priviledges with disobedience. I had to make the “punishment fit the crime,” or there was no sense in consequences. On her birthday one year, she gouged a hole in her birthday cake, eating it with her hands. So that’s what she got for supper...her birthday cake. I was such a mean mommie! But she never forgot it!