Oh Discipline....

I remember the first moment I disciplined CB in front of someone. It was my mom. The look of horror on her face was priceless.  She was always super relaxed with us kids. We could have committed murder and she would have been like "no honey, don't do that" no wonder my brother and I were always swinging from the ceiling, tearing up stores. We.Were.Monsters.

Now CB, I'm on top of him. I might be a bit to on top of him, especially with his attitude. He gets this attitude some days and will hit and bite. He can be mean to the dogs (which is weird since we're in general pretty nice to the dogs)


How do I deal with aggression? Timeouts mainly. Sometimes we just let the dogs nip him back too (stellar parenting, right?)

Light sockets, running in the streets, not listening during life threatening events?  Spanking. Either on the butt or on the hand, never hard, and always with an explanation. Light sockets is our big problem. He went after a socket with some keys one day and I've never been more upset, scared in my life. It was frightening. We have covers on all sockets, but he unplugs stuff and will plug it back in. They need to make a way to lock plugs into the socket.
Running into the street has become a new one. Now that I'm having him walk more as my expanding waistline grows, its harder to carry him place to place. So I have him hold my hand and walk. The terrible hand drop and run is awful.

Tantrums? Oh its a mothers worse nightmare. Walking through Target. Child sees something completely inappropriate (for CB its usually a big ass bottle of wine) and shortly after we walk away from said bottle of wine(or other contraband item)

The scream - Ignore it. It means nothing. He knows he's not getting that bottle of wine.

The Flop down - Stop so you don't just leave the kid in the middle of the store. Wait it out. Also, keep your eyes on your child, cause I can guarantee some little old bitty will stop to judge you. (and trust me, beat the shit out of an old lady, might FEEL like the right thing to do in the heat of the moment. But its NOT in the long run)

The Wet Noodle - Usually occurs when child is walking and holding your hand (otherwise its just a flop down) This is probably my least favorite, especially if your busy and in a hurry and that moment your child wet noodles, you accidentally yank their arm and you look like a child abuser. This one is so tricky, what do you do?


Discipline is hard, it invites a lot of judgement and a lot of people being douchecanoes about it, especially if they don't agree.