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Jun. 22nd, 2007 11:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gazerwolfI uploaded a bunch of new user icons today...I had a bunch that I had put away thinking I might use them sometime...well it's sometime.
The two youngest boys got into the fridge and pantry again today.
They got the milk, two boxes of mac and cheese, a box of crackers (the wrapped up packages of 6), a bag of marshmallows, and two cups of applesauce.
I punished them for doing this before by not letting them play downstairs for the rest of the day...did that again today...but obviously it doesn't work.
I added a couple of butt swats for the instigator (Ben) to it today. Don't think that worked either...he cried for about thirty seconds and then went on about his business like nothing happened.
So I sat down with him in the kitchen and pointed out what could have happened.
He had climbed the pantry shelf to get the marshmallows...and I noticed that the first shelf he had to climb on had tilted a bit...I checked and the only thing that kept it from tilting completly out was a bag of microwave popcorn.
(I am paraphrasing the conversation after this point cause my memory isn't that good)
I took that out of the shelf in front of him and said "Look what could have happened." Then I pushed down on the shelf.
The entire shelf falls out and lots of stuff came crashing down around my hand....I asked him then..."and where would you be?"
"in the hobbital"
"Yep...so don't climb stuff. You want something ask mommy or daddy."
"Now...the mac and cheese you got...did you eat any?"
"Yes"
"didn't taste very good did it?"
"..no"
"Thats because it needed to be cooked. Most of our food needs to be cooked...next time if you are hungry ask mommy or daddy for something....we'll get something for you...maybe not right then but we'll get you something."
Hope that works.
The two youngest boys got into the fridge and pantry again today.
They got the milk, two boxes of mac and cheese, a box of crackers (the wrapped up packages of 6), a bag of marshmallows, and two cups of applesauce.
I punished them for doing this before by not letting them play downstairs for the rest of the day...did that again today...but obviously it doesn't work.
I added a couple of butt swats for the instigator (Ben) to it today. Don't think that worked either...he cried for about thirty seconds and then went on about his business like nothing happened.
So I sat down with him in the kitchen and pointed out what could have happened.
He had climbed the pantry shelf to get the marshmallows...and I noticed that the first shelf he had to climb on had tilted a bit...I checked and the only thing that kept it from tilting completly out was a bag of microwave popcorn.
(I am paraphrasing the conversation after this point cause my memory isn't that good)
I took that out of the shelf in front of him and said "Look what could have happened." Then I pushed down on the shelf.
The entire shelf falls out and lots of stuff came crashing down around my hand....I asked him then..."and where would you be?"
"in the hobbital"
"Yep...so don't climb stuff. You want something ask mommy or daddy."
"Now...the mac and cheese you got...did you eat any?"
"Yes"
"didn't taste very good did it?"
"..no"
"Thats because it needed to be cooked. Most of our food needs to be cooked...next time if you are hungry ask mommy or daddy for something....we'll get something for you...maybe not right then but we'll get you something."
Hope that works.
