Being a dad, sometimes one of the kids will speak hatefully and out of line in a way I don't allow in the house, which triggers them getting sent to their rooms to cool off or to the proverbial "time out chair", and often while they are on the chair they continue to be hateful and mean. So I keep upping the time they have to spend sitting there until they finally stop spouting and obey the quiet rule on the chair.
The problem is that my wife thinks that I should just ignore whatever crap they are spouting while they're in the punishment zone, which strikes my as being the same thing as saying " of any crime committed while in prison doesn't increase the time an inmate has to spend" -- and she won't let up on the criticality for hours, even after the kid is off time out and has accepted the correction, gone back to happy, etc.
At which point I don't see a way to fix things and usually just have to walk away -- which really doesn't help either.
Suggestions?
2007-11-23
15:16:45
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