Please! Anyone!! Tell me how to deal with a 3 1/2 year old who thinks he is the boss! HelP me! I cannot stand watching him try to take matters into his own hands any longer! It's making me crazy! Within the last 5 minutes I've had to send A to his room for taking cereal from his little brother and telling him he's, "Not allowed to eat this, E. You hafta eat your dinner!" And then after his first incarceration and a few minutes of freedom, he decides to take some garbage from his brother because he's, "Not allowed to play with trash! Put it in the garbage." Where he once again puts the item above his head and runs around with it, so his brother can follow behind him screaming in protest. AND he doesn't even put this trash in the GARBAGE himself. Bah!
It's soooo annoying. What a simple concept. Don't tell your brother what to do, quite bossing him around and your life will be easier. The weight of trying to be mommy will be lifted off your 3 1/2 year old shoulders and you can go back to being a kid. I'll stop putting you in timeout and I'll stop imprisoning you in your room.... oh, and I'll stop stealing your toys as punishment as well.
Seriously, does anyone out there have tactics that work with a bossy know it all child? No, I don't want to know about books I can read. Lets be honest here, I'll have the good intention to read it, but between all the kiddy fights I have to stop and my own things getting in the way, I'll not read a book.
It's soooo annoying. What a simple concept. Don't tell your brother what to do, quite bossing him around and your life will be easier. The weight of trying to be mommy will be lifted off your 3 1/2 year old shoulders and you can go back to being a kid. I'll stop putting you in timeout and I'll stop imprisoning you in your room.... oh, and I'll stop stealing your toys as punishment as well.
Seriously, does anyone out there have tactics that work with a bossy know it all child? No, I don't want to know about books I can read. Lets be honest here, I'll have the good intention to read it, but between all the kiddy fights I have to stop and my own things getting in the way, I'll not read a book.
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Well.... since you can't just choke them and whipping them senseless isn't such a great idea either...TOo late for only a one child family.
That leaves...HHHMM sit and talk it out! Oh yeah... 3 1/2 year old that doesn't do any logic stuff.
Eat chocolate cake in front of him when he does it and say you will share when he quits being bossy : ) Seriously I have no good ideas for. Bossy (that's your term) ppl are wonderful leaders, movers, and shakers too.
Let me know what you try that works : ) LOVE YA
Haha! I have no way to help but if it makes you feel better I was the bossy child :) My sisters nicknamed me Rabbit from Pooh Bear because I was "mean". And I turned out all right :) Not that it helps you now though. Good luck mommy!
Now I know where my Mom got those ideas from... haha, crazy how these things run full circle, I guess you could always send him to boot camp ;) ... Once you figure out the solution, write a book on it and make millions!!
Now I know where my Mom got those ideas from... haha, crazy how these things run full circle, I guess you could always send him to boot camp ;) ... Once you figure out the solution, write a book on it and make millions!!
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