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| I don't know how, but she came home clean despite these mud pictures |
So instead of coming home to a crazy dog, we were able to have this all evening:
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| I'm too fat to play in the mud with puppies all day....zzzzzzzzzzzz |
On Saturday, I went for an early run with two friends and we did a little less than 7 miles before it got too hot. Peanut came along for that, so I guess she's had a banner weekend. I ran 5 miles today (36 miles for the week) but stuck to the treadmill instead because I didn't want to get up really early. Instead, I slept in until 7:30am (crazy!) and made biscuits from scratch and bacon (not from scratch). My husband is going to shed a tear for the loss of his hot breakfasts on the weekends when I go back to my former levels of running.
This weekend, my husband got to experience a problem I've been having with Faith lately: she loves going to time out. She only gets time out for one thing (hitting) and when I first did it, she would cry and act like those 2 minutes in a comfy chair were the end of the world. Now she smiles and sits in absolute silence and doesn't move a muscle.
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| Mommy, don't disturb me. I'm in something they call "time out" |
She's now hitting on purpose just to get a time out, so obviously I'm sucking at some part of the punishment thing or she's a born criminal. The thing is that when she is is done with time out, she's calm and gentle and usually wants to give a hug to the person/dog she hit and say "SAW-EEE" so it's working in a way. As it stands, she's getting about 2 time outs a day and loving every second of it. My husband told me that yelling at people and having them fear you is a learned art so I shouldn't feel bad. It must be especially hard with a toddler since he has tons of training and practice in yelling at people and she still just smiles at him when he puts her in time out.
I wonder if she's going to enjoy being grounded in high school as much as she enjoys time outs now? I doubt it, but I'll be sure to remind her that she used to smile about punishments.
It would be easier to dole out punishments if she wasn't so freaking cute. Sure, I'm biased, but I'm pretty sure I have the loudest stomping kid on the block.
Did you ever secretly (or not so secretly) enjoy punishments as a kid? I seem to recall thinking getting sent to my room which was full of toys as not such a bad deal.
This is hilarious. Your kid is a devious mastermind.
ReplyDeletebtw, your blog checklist was only missing one thing: eating crappy food.
Biscuits and bacon don't count?
DeleteThat's practically health food.
DeleteYou're not supposed to put tap shoes on her. DUH!
ReplyDeleteAlso I'm fairly disappointed you didn't make the bacon from scratch. When did you become so LAZY?
The pig I'm raising out back just isn't fat enough yet for homemade bacon.
DeleteI don't remember getting in trouble as a kid, but I've had a life long fear of the abstract idea of "getting in trouble."
ReplyDeleteHmmm, I am pretty sure I did like to get in trouble when I was a kid and liked it. A room full of toys = awesomeness. She is pretty cute! I love how she goes through your husband's legs just like Riley goes through ours! LOL
ReplyDeletethat chair is way too comfortable. use the little one and face her to the wall. but really i'm just making this up. i have no idea how to institute discipline. i would go to time out too though if i could relax like that. she's a trip.
ReplyDeleteMaybe there is merit to sitting facing the corner. I always thought just having to sit still and not play was punishment enough, but apparently I suck at this. :)
DeleteOnce Faith's minion arrives and is old enough to play with her, it can be effective for the time out kid to have to watch the other kid keep playing, seeing what they are missing out on. But, Faith might still find that fun, in which case I guess facing the wall would be better :)
Deleteit has to be a hard wooden stool, and you have to make her wear a dunce cap.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if Amazon sells dunce caps?
DeleteWhen my sister and I were sent to our rooms, we would pick up the phones in our rooms and talk over the dial tone. We were pretty advanced.
ReplyDeleteThis is explains so much.
DeleteI tried doing a few timeouts with Cameron for hitting a while back(he was only about 21 mths at the time) and I quickly realized that it wasn't going to work (yet) because he thought it was absolutely hilarious. Instead of a chair, it was the bottom step going upstairs. I would have been willing to sit there and return him to the step as many times as it took, but the little dude just thought it was the funnest game ever. So I needed to pull the plug on it before he developed fun ideas about time out. He was a little too young for it then I think. Hitting seems to have been nipped in the bud so far so hopefully when the next reason to institute time out comes, it won't be hilarious anymore!
ReplyDeleteSounds like Faith gets the point though which is good!
I know this hitting thing is just a phase, but it sure is an annoying one!
DeleteGlad to hear the cuteness doesn't wear off on your own kid because I'm usually over it about an hour in to the first day of school. How about for a punishment you read aloud from some of the really terrible blogs and force her to listen?
ReplyDeleteI like how your brain works, but that sounds like a punishment for me too :)
DeleteCongrats on having another girl! Faith is hysterical. Does she also love the quiet game?
ReplyDeleteHonestly a kid who likes to sit in time out doesn't sound too bad. They stay out of trouble that way, right?
If you're too chicken to do the time out right (see stool & duncecap above), at least make her pick up PeanutPoop, so you get some useful work out of her.
ReplyDeleteSO THIS is how you get all her energy out lol LOVE the video.
ReplyDeleteWe've been putting P behind a baby gate for time out and she used to wail but now she just hangs out. I don't think she's old enough to do a chair time out because I'm not sure she 'gets' it yet but I gotta start thinking creatively already bc that kid is smart and very mischievousness so I see a lot of time outs in her future.
Wow, those are some loud shoes. At least you'll never lose her. They make squeaker shoes so you won't lose your kid at the store, but I don't think you'll need to get those! I was generally well behaved because punishment meant spanking with a wire hanger. You learn to be good quick.
ReplyDeleteAlso, the B's hitting phase is lasting a long time for us too. Time out is in the corner but she doesn't care, she uses the time to eat her toes.
DeletePretty funny that she likes timeouts...Maybe use that hard looking wooden chair NEXT to the comfy chair? Or make her sit on the stairs. I don't really remember timeouts well, but they were in our bedrooms which had mostly stuffed animals; the real toys were in the basement.
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