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^^ the older two know what money is and what a credit card is. Credit card money is funny money, and dollar bills are good money. They tip the barber and gas attendants etc.
Sharing is hard to teach, I guess it is re-inforcement that I need to work on.
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sharing is soo not difficult at all. the trick is to reinforce the postive behaviours more so than the negatives. so when one of them does share his toy with the other, praise him for doing so, that way the other 2 will notice that hes getting praise for something so simple, they may want to try it too.
you could use a chart reward scheme, but kids are kids, when they'r older, they'l want to know why one was given a better name than the other. You can never win.
Just teach them to love each other. Do Teletubbies "big hugsssss" always works.
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Teletubbies and Barney - I am going to go through intensive therapy to get rid of the hypnotic, repetitive little ditties sung on those shows. I guess not having to go through that daily anymore is one benefit of teens.
But I agree that Verizon should act like the teletubby of his choice :)
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verizon could be Tinky Winky...im sure mama has a red handbag he could borrow!
minah im shocked that you dont love the Teletubbies, they are soo cute and ever so educational...that big stupid purple dinasour is hopeless. i miss Big Bird! seseame street (sp)..happy days!!!
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Teletubby my left foot. My kids dont watch girlie shows, they watch bob the builder, thomas the train, jay jay chow-mein and just recently three musketeers.
Mama got them that gay bambi dvd, that thank god no one really liked. Oh they also watch tiny planets.
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now i'm sure ...i'm really really blessed...!!! my boys (6 n 4) r really seedhay saadhay...its the girl (17 months) who is the naughtiest ....!!!
i feel bad for your youngst verizon,...!!
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Aww I feel bad for baby #3, I was the youngest of 4, I got similar treatment, my mom used to make my siblings watch Mister Rogers sort of made them nicer.
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Verizon, there's your problem, not enough of the nice nice "gay" stuff to balance out the testosterome (spelling, my bane) loaded stuff you feed them.
Give them some Teletubbies and force some 'Beauty and the Beast' on them and watch them straighten out.
Bambi gave me nightmares as a kid, his mommy died right at the beginning, that was a horrible movie. My siblings and I cried for days. My mother has hated Disney since then.
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I cant wait to take them hunting deer/game and show them how to kill for food. Here is a dead bambi. Lets BBQ now.
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Verizon, your older sons are fulfilling their brotherly duties ......its character building!
Do you know of those stories where there are three brothers who fight with the youngest and the youngest is always called simpleton.... who go off one by one to the castle on top of a huge mountain to rescue the princess but the first two get into bother and are either cast in to the dungeons by the evil ogre or turn to stone by the wicked witch, but when its simpletons turn he goes off save an old hags life who gives him a magic gift and then saves a fox or some mice or something and eventually gets to the princess, frees her... saves his brother from the monster with the aid of the magic gifts and then takes his brother home, deposits them in their woodmans shack and goes of with the princess to claim his kindom.
thats what your three kids story remind me of...
I hope you havent called your son simpleton
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ok, my heads spinning now.......
Between the brick wall and this post whew
Mo3 - If you are there, somewhere, when Verizon goes off to work, play that Beauty and the Beast tape :)
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Minah...take a break..have a nice cup of chai and a chocolate biscuit.
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Have you ever tried putting the toys in time out? This has worked pretty well for my rugrats. The other thing we did is set three main rules that must be obeyed - no serious backtalk, no hitting, and no major verbal squabbles (excessive shouting) with the siblings. We posted the rules clearly, then I bought a referee's whistle. When it gets out of control, I blow the whistle, and ask if they want to mediate (work it out), or arbitrate (I punish them -usually time out or cleaning - my oldest son has to scrub the dining room floor).
Funny thing is, I rarely need the whistle anymore, and they usually work it out themselves, cause no one wants to clean or sit by themselves.
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you should invite tania from lil angels over. shes a godsend fer tearaways.
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awww shoooo cute! I love little kids…but I know boys r so shararti compared to girls.
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Excellent suggestions. Thank you. I will try them out. We dont timeout the toys but I do take it away from them for a day.
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^^^ will make them scrub the floor?
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Bob the Builder is sooo girly! he was created by a woman for flips sake! and he wears orange and yellow together!!! only a woman can get away with that
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^^ Cut it out, Bobs my hero. I even have a bob outfit that I wear occasionally. I only hatethe crane (lofty, I always forget that dizzy b1tch), I know spuck,muck and dizzy and travis, and rollie and wendy and pilchard, and spud......
He saves my ass everytime the kids act up.