Sunday, February 17, 2008
Another thing...
I am so in love with the song Hallelujah lately. I've always loved the Jeff Buckley version (it's actually #1 on my top 5 songs of all time), and I've recently discovered several other worthy versions. Would it be weird to make a playlist of just covers of this song? In other news, Dillon has started displaying his temper. I'd been keeping my fingers crossed that he wouldn't have one, especially since he's the happiest, most chill kid ever. Then today I did something he didn't like and he gave me a mad face and then hit me. Three times. In fact, the more I held his hand down and said no, the more he hit me. Awesome. He went straight into the crib for time-out, since I didn't really know what else to do and needed to put him somewhere before I did something I would regret. If this keeps up, I think he's going to get really familiar with spanking, unless someone has a better idea...
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wow, addi's been displaying this behavior for months now - boy am I in trouble!
Can I offer my two cents? Spanking is only going to teach him that hitting is okay...and set up a double standard (I can hit you but you can't hit anyone).
With my kids, they have to go to time out immediately if they hit, no questions asked. I also used to say (when they were smaller), "No Hit (in a grouchy voice)! Gentle hands (in a gentle voice)" and would demonstrate. If he's mad about something, you can teach him to hit the floor instead of hitting people - we had to do this as an intermediate step with Owen because he used hitting to express anger until he could understand other choices.
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