What am I doing wrong?! Or, Day 1 Take 3

 

Seriously, can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong? No matter what method of discipline I try nothing seems to get through to him. We were doing so well this afternoon after a horrendous day yesterday so we stopped by the store to get him a treat. Not 5 steps into the store and he becomes a completely different child. Running around like crazy, not listening to anything i say no matter how many different times and ways I say it. Finally had to just pick him up and carry him out of the store he was misbehaving so bad. He is now confined to his room for a second night in a row and I am still at a loss as to what is going to be an effective discipline method for him. We find one way that seems to work and then not a week later it no longer works and no previous methods work either. I'm trying really hard not to yell at him but he is just so damn hardheaded that I honestly dont know what else to do with him.

Tomorrow will be...Day 1 Take 2

Failed miserably today, so not happy about it.  You'd think it would be fairly easy to make it through the day without yelling when he is in school 8 hours a day but then he gets home and its time for, Dun Dun Dun, The Dreaded Homework!  There is nothing i dislike more than helping the Moose with his homework.  It is always so frustrating and serves as a very strong reminder of why I made the decision not to homeschool.  Getting him to sit down and do his homework isnt a problem, he actually likes the Idea of doing his homework.  The problem is getting him to focus and do things correctly like writing his letters correctly.  I know he knows how to do them correctly, i swear he just messes them up to push Mommy's buttons.  Today was no exception.  We got through the sight words ok but then it was time for writing his sentences.  He refused to concentrate and kept playing around and having to erase constantly instead of doing it correctly the first time like I know he can.  So naturally it got to the point where i couldnt take it anymore and yup, you guessed it, I yelled at him.  Moose! Do it correctly or you will be sitting at this table for the rest of the night!  Argh!! I'm so frustrated with myself right now.  I felt bad after doing it and it always sets off his sensory issues so then he is upset as well and now we are both dealing with widely swinging emotions.  We will try again tomorrow, which thankfully is a Friday so no homework but it's also the start of the weekend and Daddy will be out of town for the weekend so there will be no escaping him if I feel like I'm going to explode.  Hopefully this time we will make it more than just a day or 2                         :-(

GRRRR!!!!!

So here it is day 2 and we are already having a rough morning and its not even 9 o'clock yet.  The Moose must have had gum or something in his ears because he was just not in a listening mood.  Which in the house i could deal with but when we are waiting out at the bus stop and he keeps running out into the road and not listening when i tell him to stop it makes it really hard to keep from yelling at him.  Particularly when there are cars coming!  On the plus side I now have 8 hours to collect myself before he gets home from school and we start all over again.

30 Days to Yelling Less Project

So i decided that some help with the whole not yelling thing might be needed and the blog I've been following, The Orange Rhino, happened to post this project today.  How much more perfect could it be?  Hopefully this project will help keep me on track because as you know, it takes 30 days to make a habit.  The project officially kicks off on Feb. 25th so I have a few days where I can have some slip-ups before we truely get under way. :-)

Day 1, Take 1

 So I have decided that I am tired of yelling at Brody aka The Moose all the time.  I love him to death but I swear I am always yelling.  In general I am a yeller to begin with, add in a short fuse and it takes absolutely nothing to set me off.  But I'm tired of it and that's really not the kind of Mom that I want to be.  So, taking cues from http://theorangerhino.com/   I am going to attempt to go 365 days without yelling at my child.  Will it happen?  I don't know but I'm going to try and I figure if i write about it every day it might help keep me on track.  So please feel free to follow along and if you see me trying to yell say Orange Rhino really loud and that will be a sign to me that I'm getting about of control.  I'm going to be teaching Brody about the Orange Rhino, although in our case that may switch to Ruby Rhino since that is the name of one of Brody's favorite games, so if you hear him say, Mommy you are an Orange/Ruby Rhino thats why.


Wish me luck and here we go!


Mommy and the Moose Feb. 19, 2013