behaviors

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Myah just turned 3 on Sunday and we are looking for some way to, well I don’

t know any other way to say it, but punish her. She does certain things

knowing that they are wrong (dumping her glass of water after I tell her not

to-she’ll go around the corner and dump it out. Going upstairs by herself

the minute I turn my back. If I catch her on the steps she’s knows she’s in

trouble and will come back down. Last week I was letting the dog out which

required me to be out of the room maybe a minute. When I came back in the

room she was gone. I found her in the attic playing with the toys we put

away. She throws things and will walk away quickly and act like she can’t

hear me, so I have to get up make her some back over and pick up what she

threw.) and currently I haven’t found anything that works besides spanking,

which is OK, but we can’t do it forever and I hate to be smacking her all

the time (although it is not hard, it just hurts her feelings). Are there

any references to help us with these situations? I think she is to the point

that her behaviors are interfering with her learning. She starts pre-school

on Tuesday and her EI team feels that this will help her greatly. One of

their main concerns is that she does not follow safety rules. I might tell

her to stop 5 times in all tones, but she won’t listen until I get a foot

away from her and most times it takes physical contact to make her stop.

Please tell me that there are others having these same problems! Myah is our

first and only so I don’t have any other first hand experiences to compare

to.

, mom to Myah, just turned 3 12/28