Katherine
03-08-2006, 05:26 PM
Anybody else's kids doing this? :shifty
My guys picked this up about a month ago. :/ :banghead I tried Sooooo hard to respond without over-reacting (and thus giving them lots of attention for a behavior I don't want repeated) by my 4yo is nobody's fool, and he can sense, I think, that I *really* don't want him to do it. :rolleyes2 So when he's not getting the attention he wants from me, he typically starts a game of moon-and-run, and my 2yo happily joins it. :banghead :banghead
It was bound to happen in public at some point... that would be today at the park when my 2yo mooned this very nice lady and her kids on the playground. :blush I apologized, picked him up and took him to the picnic table to sit with me for a few minutes (at home the rule is that if you show your bottom you have to sit on it) and then walked back and tried to "help" him say he was sorry. He just said "no." :doh
I'm dreading the day it happens in front of my parents. :( I still remember my Mom proudly recounting the story of how my cousin was so livid when her little boy did this and swooped in to pop his bottom before he could pull his pants up, adding on a vehement "don't you EVER do that again!" :shifty :/
Any suggestions for workign through this...? I'm fumbling around for how to approach this in a teaching way. :think
I've been talking about showing respect for others, and how showing our bottoms is considered insulting and makes people feel uncomfortable. Also that our bodies are private and need to stay covered when other people are around. :shrug Is there a different approach I should be taking? Should I be responding in a different way when they do it (other than "when you show your bottom, you have to sit on it")?
My 4yo internalized the fact that I want his bottom covered, and has experimented with "wagging" it but not pulling his pants down. :neutral :doh :lol (ever the loop-hole finder! :lol) I wasn't sure whether to thank him for not pulling them down or correct him for wagging it... :eyebrow
My guys picked this up about a month ago. :/ :banghead I tried Sooooo hard to respond without over-reacting (and thus giving them lots of attention for a behavior I don't want repeated) by my 4yo is nobody's fool, and he can sense, I think, that I *really* don't want him to do it. :rolleyes2 So when he's not getting the attention he wants from me, he typically starts a game of moon-and-run, and my 2yo happily joins it. :banghead :banghead
It was bound to happen in public at some point... that would be today at the park when my 2yo mooned this very nice lady and her kids on the playground. :blush I apologized, picked him up and took him to the picnic table to sit with me for a few minutes (at home the rule is that if you show your bottom you have to sit on it) and then walked back and tried to "help" him say he was sorry. He just said "no." :doh
I'm dreading the day it happens in front of my parents. :( I still remember my Mom proudly recounting the story of how my cousin was so livid when her little boy did this and swooped in to pop his bottom before he could pull his pants up, adding on a vehement "don't you EVER do that again!" :shifty :/
Any suggestions for workign through this...? I'm fumbling around for how to approach this in a teaching way. :think
I've been talking about showing respect for others, and how showing our bottoms is considered insulting and makes people feel uncomfortable. Also that our bodies are private and need to stay covered when other people are around. :shrug Is there a different approach I should be taking? Should I be responding in a different way when they do it (other than "when you show your bottom, you have to sit on it")?
My 4yo internalized the fact that I want his bottom covered, and has experimented with "wagging" it but not pulling his pants down. :neutral :doh :lol (ever the loop-hole finder! :lol) I wasn't sure whether to thank him for not pulling them down or correct him for wagging it... :eyebrow