You have a 6 year old boy. You tell him "no video games until you take out the garbage, finish your workbook lessons, and feed the dogs". The two jobs mentioned are his only chores at this time. However, lil' smarty pants decides he will ignore your first, second and third calm requests to do the things you request and proceeds to huff and puff and hook up a video game system and prepare to play.
Ok. Now at this point when I was a youngster (yeah back in the day) I would have gotten smacked into the stratosphere if I did not obey after the second chance. But times have changed, and although I am definitely not an AP/gentle discipline type, I'm not a complete drill sergeant either. Although, I probably lean more towards the drill sergeant because I am firm and have little tolerance for back talk and ignoring from a child.
Anyway, what should I do? This has been going on for a few weeks now and I haven't spanked him yet, but I have threatened it, and seen no improvement.
2007-02-13
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