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Sick this week, kid is sick, spouse is sick. I'm at a significant negative PTO balance right now, so I'm literally not allowed to take any time off, so I'm going in to work and making everyone else sick. sick. sick sick sick.
Little Beaver has been smirking and acting defiant whenever she misbehaves. It's clearly becoming a little game for her, and so we're discussing approaches to working towards discipline. She's still very young, and so doesn't understand very much at all about what we're saying. That results in a lot of situations where she's doing something unacceptable (sticking her hand in the toilet, climbing onto her table while she's eating), but we can't easily communicate what we want her to do... or not do.
I’ve heard toddlers struggle with understanding negatives. So instead of “Don’t out your hand in the toilet” say something like “We put our hands in the sink” or “Poop how in the potty.”
Our first kid responded ehhh alright to this framing, but our second likes to push boundaries too. Maybe it’ll work you all though.