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[quote=Anonymous]I feel you! Sometimes I need to count to more than 10 to calmly react to my 2 year old charge - and my MB says to me I like how you calmly handle his behaviour! (sometimes I don't feel so calm!)

My style is to take the child away from the situation. Not so much time out in a chair or on a step but more "thats not the correct behaviour, let me pop you in another room to calm down/ have time to think. You can come back when you are ready to eat nicely/ talk nicely/ have calmed down ect". Taking them outside the room helps defuse the situation and gives me a chance to breath/ calm down as well as giving my charge a chance to calm down.

when your charge gets into one of her moods why don't you try popping her in a safe place and waiting it out? If she still has a cot this is a great place. You can go in every few minutes (or less) and say "are you ready to come and play nicely?"  and if she says no or is rude you can just say "ok, well I'll come back in a little while and see if you are ready".

I'm torn between ignoring behavious I don't like and try to do this for smaller/ less important behaviours (pick your battles, right?) and taking a stand for things that are unacceptable. Ie not being gentle with a sibling is an unacceptable behaviour and I will move to another room, and while moving say "we are gentle with X" or "in our family it is not acceptable to hit the baby"

Hope you have a lovely long weekend!

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