Sidebar - Allow two levels of communication to handle a problem. Yelling or timeouts or paddling are the ways most of us know and have experienced. The other is to allow a sidebar. Treat the kid like an adult and have a rational discussion with them.
Talk to them as if you are giving some sort of inside information no one else knows.
Even my kid at 4 years old could handle that kind of discussion. Put the issue into a perspective they can understand.
Not funny anecdotes here but they have worked for us.
Talk to them as if you are giving some sort of inside information no one else knows.
Even my kid at 4 years old could handle that kind of discussion. Put the issue into a perspective they can understand.
You bet funny is not necessarily the spirit of the moment in confronting or teaching the human condition with our kids. Yes, they can handle discussions of right from wrong in an amazingly wise condition, considering their age. They know but it is a challenge to do!
My husband and I are comedians by nature and enjoyed the show our children put on to demonstrate to us - knowingly - the most basic of the human condition. Life to us, is very funny; abet scarey...