Harsh but educational

[suityou01]

That's how Gary Glitter got into trouble.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to RichardCranium again.

[suityou01]

Back in the days, I recall my father punished my big sister for continually grassing me up every time I broke something. Usually she was daddy's girl, and I would end up being yelled at or receiving a red backside if it was really bad, but this time he just surprised us.

Looking back now, it was actually an important lesson for adult life and the 'real world'. Nobody likes a grass....

[Tingles]

Been having some trouble with SY03. Stropping off, being mouthy, ignoring what he is told, being sullen. So this morning when he stood on the smallest of our "nest of tables" to try and reach something, broke it, he hid it back in the nest of tables.

SY04 relished in coming to tell us what SY03 had done, being the typical pesky little brother.

I went to investigate and sure enough the table was busted beyond economical repair. SY02 and I discussed what to do, and I had an idea.

SY03 and I dismantled the table, examined the broken pieces, drew a diagram with measurements of the broken side. Then we went to B&Q with out cutting list and HE asked (very shyly) if the nice man at the timber saw could cut some pieces of wood to match our specification. I explained what we were doing, and why. Bless him he cut all the pieces and only charged SY03 50p.

We came home, reclaimed the dowels from the broken piece of furniture and drilled dowel holes in the new pieces. Bit of wood glue and the table is repaired.

Granted I am bloody awful at carpentry and the end result is far from pleasing, but SY03 will not stand on a table and break it again. Plus he understood the lengths we had to go to, for a moment of bad judgement. He also learned a lot about measuring, marking and drilling.

And in the very end he was sorry for what he had done, but also proud of what we had achieved, and for the first time experienced that "standing back and looking at what we had achieved" experience.

So, should I have just bought a new table and banned him from watching telly? I feel contented this was a pretty nifty piece of parenting.

I'm somewhat annoyed by this post.


Tone

[suityou01]

I'm somewhat annoyed by this post.


Bing

Job done then





Doo-whap-do-whap-de-whap-de-whap

[Zippy]

Obedient and well behaved children is my major desire.

<snigger>

I love your optimism.

[Sands of Time]

Been having some trouble with SY03. Stropping off, being mouthy, ignoring what he is told, being sullen. So this morning when he stood on the smallest of our "nest of tables" to try and reach something, broke it, he hid it back in the nest of tables.

SY04 relished in coming to tell us what SY03 had done, being the typical pesky little brother.

I went to investigate and sure enough the table was busted beyond economical repair. SY02 and I discussed what to do, and I had an idea.

SY03 and I dismantled the table, examined the broken pieces, drew a diagram with measurements of the broken side. Then we went to B&Q with out cutting list and HE asked (very shyly) if the nice man at the timber saw could cut some pieces of wood to match our specification. I explained what we were doing, and why. Bless him he cut all the pieces and only charged SY03 50p.

We came home, reclaimed the dowels from the broken piece of furniture and drilled dowel holes in the new pieces. Bit of wood glue and the table is repaired.

Granted I am bloody awful at carpentry and the end result is far from pleasing, but SY03 will not stand on a table and break it again. Plus he understood the lengths we had to go to, for a moment of bad judgement. He also learned a lot about measuring, marking and drilling.

And in the very end he was sorry for what he had done, but also proud of what we had achieved, and for the first time experienced that "standing back and looking at what we had achieved" experience.

So, should I have just bought a new table and banned him from watching telly? I feel contented this was a pretty nifty piece of parenting.

I'm calling social services about this post.


Bing!

[suityou01]

I'm calling social services about this post.


Bing!

Crikey another sockie

[Zippy]

Crikey another sockie

Outing yourself is not big and it's not clever.

HTH

[suityou01]

I may be a closet member of the comfy shoes brigage, but outing yourself is not big and it's not clever.

HTH

OK sorry.

[mudskipper]

I have 3 kids. The youngest is now 13. None of them have ever broken the furniture.

HTH.