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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m guessing your consequences are weak. Take away the iPad for a day? Who cares. It’s back tomorrow. He’s old enough to understand that this is NOT okay. I would lay it out for him before it happens again. Charlie—biting is not okay. It hurts your sister. If it happens again, you will lose ALL (non school related) screens for 2 weeks. And then stick to it!!! [/quote]

Screens is a lame punishment. Most kids can easily find something they like doing just as much, screens are just the laziest option.

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Well the Op can pick whatever currency is most important to a kid, it was an example. However, with one of my kids screens are hugely important and after some repeated bad behavior in school a few years ago, we did this and it worked. My son stopped.

Now if you did have a kid who is happy without screens, then bonus, they have some time without screens and maybe their behavior would
Improve because of that.

My point was...the kid kept doing it because the punishment wasn’t big enough. Even if something else was going on beneath the surface that is causing the behavior—you have to stop the kid from biting his sister hard, and that’s one way to do it.[/quote]

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