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brigid ([personal profile] brigid) wrote2012-09-19 10:55 am
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Totally Effective Things I Say To My Kid: A List

Here is a list of totally effective things I say to my kid in an attempt to parent and discipline him:

  • Hey!
  • Stop it!
  • Seriously, knock it off.
  • Did you hear me?
  • What did I just say?
  • Why did you do that?
  • WHY did you DO that?
  • Is that a good idea?
  • What do you have?
  • OH GOD PUT THAT DOWN.
  • I’m going to count to three.
  • Is that a good decision?
  • I’m going to eat your face.

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waldo: (General: Why Teachers Quit)

[personal profile] waldo 2012-09-20 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
Here's a list of totally effective things I say to my eleven year old students...


Hey!
Stop it!
Seriously, knock it off.
Did you hear me?
What did I just say?
Why did you do that?
WHY did you DO that?
Is that a good idea?
What do you have?
OH GOD PUT THAT DOWN.
I’m going to count to three.*
Is that a good decision?
Clearly you have no interest in going out for recess today.**


*Okay, full disclosure, usually I count *down* from either five or ten depending on what I need them to do RIGHT THE HELL NOW.

** Threatening to eat their faces would just cause WAY more chaos than I already have.
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[personal profile] brigid 2012-09-20 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
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.
waldo: (General: Why Teachers Quit)

[personal profile] waldo 2012-09-20 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
I can threaten to take away their computer, but the downside to that is I don't get my writing work. And they don't much care if you take away the rest of their books and things.

I couldn't turn my students upside down if I tried. Have I mentioned that I teach Amazon girls? When another teacher wrote at the top of my board today I had to get one of my 11 year old girls (who happens to be getting close to about 5 and a half feet) to erase it for me. And her friends aren't much shorter.

My boys are closer to my height, but I'd still say 75% of them are at least three inches taller than me.
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