A slow count to 3 usually works fairly well, along with a threat to put something related to his transgression in time out.
Threatening to eat his face can usually turn a bad situation around because it's goofy and low pressure. I also pick him up and turn him upside down sometimes and he laughs and tells me he's furious but he's laughing. I wouldn't do that with someone else's kid though.
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Date: 2012-09-20 02:30 am (UTC)Threatening to eat his face can usually turn a bad situation around because it's goofy and low pressure. I also pick him up and turn him upside down sometimes and he laughs and tells me he's furious but he's laughing. I wouldn't do that with someone else's kid though.