If I have to tell you one more time.....

We have all said it. We have all gone blue in the face repeating the same things over and over to our children in efforts to get them to do something.

Nagging our children is no fun for us or them. But on top of the not listening we have the random senseless tantrums, the talking back, whining.... every kid does it at some point and we all deal with it the best way we can.

With my oldest, and only one child in the picture at the time, it was so easy to work through things in a much more calm and sane matter. I could take the time to talk to her, give her the "time out" if needed or if we were out and about, simply head home as part of the punishment


With more children in the picture, it's not always easy. There is tattletales, laughing by one child when another is in trouble and then there are my favourite times when they all decide to act up together and tag team their mama with naughtiness.
Trying to reason with a misbehaving 3 year old while attempting to nurse a starving newborn is not easy. Chasing a 3 year old down that has drawn on the walls while trying to calm a screaming newborn and change a poopy diaper at the same time, not so easy either.

The more kids we have the more trying it gets, the older the kids get the more there is to be done with correcting behaviour and enforcing positive attitudes and fair play.

I always feel horrible for the amount of times in a week I have to say "no", "don't" or "can't". It seems that in trying to teach our kids the right way act or do things, we tend to use a lot of negative words.

I know personally I need to find a way to use more positive words when trying to calm a tantrum, get a child to listen or stop whining or teaching a child to not hit.
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This month momstown is putting on another free webinar with Positive Parenting Solutions to help with just these issues! If you can relate to anything here, take an hour out of your evening to listen in!