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I have a little boy of four and a half years that is a distant cousin or something like that that stays with us a few times a month as his mommy is a druggie so he lives with his great-grandmother by court order.
I've been blessed with the role of being "Uncle Caleb" and as such the only real positive role model that he has at this point in time. (poor kid, me as a role model... he's screwed
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One of my parenting rules is that I hate to go over the rules over and over again... My kids will blow off mom but when I tell them not to do "that" they listen the first time because they've learned that bad stuff happens when they don't listen to dad. Just as I was sending my reply to another post I heard one kid screaming bloody murder and two kids yelling that they told him not to do it...
Thank God he was wearing a heavy sweater. Even gentle bees will sting if you beat on them hard enough. Once things settled down I told him, "You were told to stay away from the bees and you were told that I didn't want to say it again." He took two on the face and one on each hand.
Next time I won't have to tell him again.
One of my parenting rules is that I hate to go over the rules over and over again... My kids will blow off mom but when I tell them not to do "that" they listen the first time because they've learned that bad stuff happens when they don't listen to dad. Just as I was sending my reply to another post I heard one kid screaming bloody murder and two kids yelling that they told him not to do it...
Thank God he was wearing a heavy sweater. Even gentle bees will sting if you beat on them hard enough. Once things settled down I told him, "You were told to stay away from the bees and you were told that I didn't want to say it again." He took two on the face and one on each hand.
Next time I won't have to tell him again.