We have two types of non-listeners:
one who only wants to do things their own way and another who is mostly in dreamland and clearly we are not part of the dream!
When we spoke to one of the teachers at the teacher conferences, she was HORRIFIED because at school, they do listen!
It came to a head for me at a party yesterday.
We all know the sugar adds to the non-listening but still... I was calling one child to come over so another lady could take a family photo of us, and I 1, 2, 3'd it and still the child didn't listen.
At this point one should put the offender in time out. But I didn't.
This is (to my knowledge) the only time I haven't followed through in public. I don't know what was going on with me (losing my mind now that I'm 39? :)) but I didn't.
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Louisa, are you cringing? (Louisa is my parenting hero - she doesn't take nonsense and will remove her little offender from a PARTY if necessary)
When I (over) analysed it with D afterwards, we decided that maybe it's because the lady was waiting and I felt the pressure for the PHOTO (bad!!!) instead of following through.
D told me I need to stop with the photos!!!!!
I will in future.
Anyway, I grabbed the child, handed over to D and we took photos. They were obviously not great so the deed isn't even justified.
In the car home, we had a good "chat" with the children - I must confess I laid down the law maybe too much (D told me afterwards they are only 4. In my view they're worse than they were when they were 2 with the not listening) but I did tell them that Aunty Louisa has taken Nicola straight home and did they want us to do that too? NOOOOOO, Mummy, we'll be good and listen. (Lies!)
Back to you very clever internets.
What are your current tricks for your non-listeners?
Pure coincidence but this set of photos is from 18 July when I was off sick. Kendra was the super listener in her class which is why she has all those stickers. There was also a fizzer lolly but that's a whole other blog post!
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| seriously, is there anything sweeter than a sleeping baby? He looks TWO! |
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| worms in beds - Nanny S does this with child 1 while fetching child 2 from the bath :) |
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| this worm thought it was huge fun when I said, "are those WORMS in the beds?" |
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| this worm is not happy to be uncovered |
