What is the most imaginative method you've used to chastise your child?
My middle daughter used to use a spray bottle of water on her toddlers. Rather than yelling or spanking, if they commence doing something they aren’t supposed to do, she nail them from across the room with a stream of water from a spray bottle! It only really works up until the age of 2 when they realize that it’s kind of fun, actually.
Wish I’d thought of it!
Once, when my oldest was three, we were at my Dad’s pool at his condo complex. I had taught her to swim when she was less than two.
This day she was standing by the pool, lipping off to me. I was becoming angry. She was standing, with her little hands on her hips, just glaring at me defiantly. Normally I’d chastise her and put her in time out, but this time I just walked by and shoved her in the water! Sputter sputter! It was strangely satisfying. :D
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I’ve made my kid run laps in the backyard. It was more to get him out of my face than anything.
I’ve stayed a virgin. That will teach him.
Yeah, I used to make my kids run laps in an empty, mowed lot across the street. “Ten laps! Farmer’s field!” It happened because, for whatever reason, they would be all ramped up, bouncing off the walls. I was never angry, just, “Go away!”
Sometimes I’d lock the door so they couldn’t get back in.
BANG! BANG! “CORRIE! SHE LOCKED US OUT AGAIN!!! MOM!”
“WHAT?”
“LET US IN!!”
“NO! NEVER!”
“BUT WE’RE HUNGRYYYYYY!”
“I’LL PUT A LOAF OF BREAD AND SOME POTATOES ON THE BACK DECK!”
“BUT WE’RE THIRSTY!”
“YOU KNOW WHERE THE HOSE IS!”
“IF WE RUN AROUND FARMERS LOT AGAIN CAN WE COME BACK IN?”
“MAYBE!”
By the time they got done with another 10 laps I kind of missed them and let them back in. We usually managed to turn such annoyances into family fun.
If they were in the car misbehaving, I would threaten to put on my Yoko Ono tape.
Once they had seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail, I would threaten to say “Nee!”
Surprisingly, both were very effective.
Yoko Ono would scare me too!
When I got the VHS “Apollo 13” over Christmas break one year, I watched it so often, at least once a day, that my kids would run screaming from the room when I plugged it in. They can’t stand those words to this day!
I never had to do it, but my threat was that if my kids ever skipped out of school I would put on fuzzy slippers, my hair in curlers and wear an old lady robe and follow them to every class to make sure they attended.
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