How should I muddle through my five year old's disrespectful practice?
My five year old son has developed a habit of mimicking me (ie copying everything I say). It really, really annoys me as I find it pretty disrespectful - and it also means he is not answering my questions/responding to instructions etc. Today I swore at him for doing it as it just gets me so riled (I know, I know, this is why he does it) - I have tried ignoring but he just kept repeating the last entry I'd said prior to igoring. Any ideas?
I hold nephews that are 4 and 6 years old..they are really good boys but whenever they get introuble my sister give them the eye (starring at them for couple of seconds) and it works..and one of my cousin always says IF YOU DO THAT ONE MORE TIME I WILL PUT YOU IN A DARK ROOM( she never does that) and he listens..
P.S. To be honest spank him every time he does something wrong and don't titter at him give him the eye good luck
Don't swear at him, don't receive mad at him, don't let it annoy you. Those three things are exactly what he wants. If you find pissed off at how cheeky he is, your own 5 year old has defeated you. Here's two things should try:
1. Take away something he enjoy, e.g. Unplug his Xbox, or take away the TV, and say he isn't getting it back until he stops.
2. Ignore him. He's lone doing it for a reaction out of you. I know you say he mimics what you did prior, but if you Ignore him long enough, and make available no reaction, he'll get bored of saying indistinguishable thing over and over. Then you can get back to housework.
Scare him... tell him by disrespecting his mom
like that..that there's this sprit in Mexico that looks for children that disrespect near mom like that...that she look for him if he keeps it up!!
I remember when I was his age I would do indistinguishable thing...
Or you could just talk to him other??
Sweety, he does these things TO get you riled up, he requests your attention, whether good or bad. How do I know this? Because I TORTURED my poor mother when I was a kid!! (poor her!) But it be all to get her attention, which she gave me greatly of, anyway, but nevertheless, it was never enough! Give your little boy lovings!! He loves you and wants to be near you!
I used to do that all the time. My mom would either spank me when needed or one of my parents would scare me. I know some ethnic group don't believe in spankings now, but it does work. I know after all that I never did it again.
Spank him. My kid tried that crap. I gave him fair warning too, presently he doesn't. Thing is, you can't laugh or grin when he does it, because he'll get confused on why you thought it was funny consequently spanked his butt.
Answers: Say out loud for him to repeat, "If (insert name here) keep copying his mommy he is going to have a very long time out and not be able to (insert favorite article here). Everytime he copies me he will add 1 more minute to his time out."
See if that helps. Maybe his repeating it will sink in more.
PUNISHMENT! NEVER swear at children - it solely shows your immaturity level.
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I hold nephews that are 4 and 6 years old..they are really good boys but whenever they get introuble my sister give them the eye (starring at them for couple of seconds) and it works..and one of my cousin always says IF YOU DO THAT ONE MORE TIME I WILL PUT YOU IN A DARK ROOM( she never does that) and he listens..
P.S. To be honest spank him every time he does something wrong and don't titter at him give him the eye good luck
Don't swear at him, don't receive mad at him, don't let it annoy you. Those three things are exactly what he wants. If you find pissed off at how cheeky he is, your own 5 year old has defeated you. Here's two things should try:
1. Take away something he enjoy, e.g. Unplug his Xbox, or take away the TV, and say he isn't getting it back until he stops.
2. Ignore him. He's lone doing it for a reaction out of you. I know you say he mimics what you did prior, but if you Ignore him long enough, and make available no reaction, he'll get bored of saying indistinguishable thing over and over. Then you can get back to housework.
Scare him... tell him by disrespecting his mom
like that..that there's this sprit in Mexico that looks for children that disrespect near mom like that...that she look for him if he keeps it up!!
I remember when I was his age I would do indistinguishable thing...
Or you could just talk to him other??
Sweety, he does these things TO get you riled up, he requests your attention, whether good or bad. How do I know this? Because I TORTURED my poor mother when I was a kid!! (poor her!) But it be all to get her attention, which she gave me greatly of, anyway, but nevertheless, it was never enough! Give your little boy lovings!! He loves you and wants to be near you!
I used to do that all the time. My mom would either spank me when needed or one of my parents would scare me. I know some ethnic group don't believe in spankings now, but it does work. I know after all that I never did it again.
Spank him. My kid tried that crap. I gave him fair warning too, presently he doesn't. Thing is, you can't laugh or grin when he does it, because he'll get confused on why you thought it was funny consequently spanked his butt.
Answers: Say out loud for him to repeat, "If (insert name here) keep copying his mommy he is going to have a very long time out and not be able to (insert favorite article here). Everytime he copies me he will add 1 more minute to his time out."
See if that helps. Maybe his repeating it will sink in more.
PUNISHMENT! NEVER swear at children - it solely shows your immaturity level.
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