Saturday, December 29, 2007
1,2,3 Magic
So.....I bought a new book this week and its called 1-2-3 Magic ...Lets face it, my kids NEED some discipline! So I have been utilizing the method for about 2 days now and I seem to think it works pretty good...I am having a little trouble using it outside the house...but I will get there! Here's how it works...if your spawn of satan is whining, screaming, begging, etc...you look at them and hold up one finger and say, "Thats 1"....give them like 5 seconds to try and shape up and then if they dont you look at them and say, "Thats 2"....give them another 5 seconds to realize that you mean business and then if they dont stop you look at them and say, "Thats 3, take (1 minute for each year of their life...Emma for example would be 4) ....so Take 4....then you say nothing and stick their butts in a time out spot for the 4 minutes or so. It seems to be working for my hellions...so far! Hey, its better then beating them, lol! You should get the book if you have children, great reading material! Either that or call Supernanny!
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Glad that it is working out for you! My son is so stubborn he would probably just ignore me if I tried it.
Right now he gets the good ole "1, spank-his-butt, MAGIC!" ROFL!!
Sounds like a great parenting program! We are currently (**read I need to get up to speed w/ my husband**) trying the Total Transformation & I do admit that while it is a great program, I am a very visual person & this is all cd's you listen to & they are looong!
Our children are 13, 6, 4 & in need of having the discipline re-alligned in the household so we no longer play the Mommy said/Daddy said game.
Please keep us posted as to how this works out :)
Lina
that worked for me for a little bit but i didn't know what to do with them when we left the house. I need to get them back in to it. They have been getting to many "beatings" :)
I never bought the book, but the 1-2-3 principle works for us. My 2.5-year-old knows to take himself up to his room and close the door for his time out if I make it to 3 (there were more than a couple swats on the backside prior to this.) The same rules apply when we leave the house - if I make it to 3, we immediately stop what we are doing, and he goes to his carseat for a time out - he loves running errands, so this only happened twice before he figured it out. Enjoy your blog!
i don't usually do the 1-2-3, but i do put tucker in the 'naughty spot' for a minute (one for each year of his life - soon to be two minutes) and it works for me. however, i think that if i added the 1-2-3, it would be even more effective. hmmm. i will do that. :) i think i saw supernanny before i had kids and stole the whole naughty spot deal from that show! hahaha! it works!
I've never read the book, but I remember in one of my EDU classes at SAU they went over some techniques for classroom management.
Anyhow, we use a "sort of" that form of discipline. Most of the time Porter gets a warning for doing something bad and sometimes a second "if you do it again you'll be in time out". If its something that we've had issues with a LOT and he KNOWS better, he just gets one "If you do that again, its a time out". However, we use the 1,2,3 thing when he stalls doing stuff that we ask him. Mainly, I just say "If I count to three and you're not over here to change your diaper, you'll be in a time out/spanked etc". Usually by 2 he is booking it over.
I think my method is a little different than what I heard in my EDU course though. That went over more of giving them counts. Like, if they throw a toy you say "That's Strike one" and so on... (which Im' sure is your book method) and on Strike 3 they get punishment. Wherever I read about this, I heard good things... like parents saying that all they eventually had to do was say "I'm going to count you!" and the kids straightened up.
Ok, what a novel. Sorry bout that! OOOH... one other thing that might work with Emma's age... in school we use a "stoplight" system. We have a black piece of paper (size of an index card) and it has a red, yellow and green light on it. All the kids start out with a paperclip on Green. After a warning, or being bad, they move to yellow (and have to move their own paperclip and put it on the board in front of everyone). If they get in trouble again they move to red and lose a privilege (recess, etc).
Alright.. I'm done rambling!! LOL!
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