I also have a 3 year old and my oldest tends to blame his ornery behavior either on Nathan (the younger one) or on me. When Alex (6 year old) is behaving naughty, I usually make him stop what he is doing and put him in a timeout chair for about 5 minutes. He then gets mad at me and says I'm just being mean.
I am getting frustrated because even though I know he's kind of young, he should know the cause and effect of his own bad behavior. I am not putting him in timeout to be mean, I am disciplining him for bad behavior, i.e. yelling at his brother or throwing things in the house. I want him to learn that he is the one that makes his own choices to behave good or badly and he needs to realize that he's in timeout because of his own actions and not just because I feel like putting him in timeout. I have tried telling him these things but he still blames me or his little brother; what do I do to make him realize he's responsible for his own behavior and consequences?
2006-09-08
06:44:59
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