Can I ask for prayers please?
I feel like I'm stuck in Groundhog Day. There seems to be no end to the stress I face day to day as a stay-at-home-mum. The same arguments, fights and hassles, no matter how much I ask them to stop, it never does.
I feel like I'm gonna go insane...I'm so tired and it's just the same...everyday...
Please pray that I can deal with the stress better.....
Mommy needs to stop feeling guilty.
Mommy asks but mommy does not go through to the end with what mommy has said mommy is going to do and be consistent in the discipline of the time outs.
I wish someone would have taught me this when my kids were small:
-- Make sure mommy understands mommy is the boss, not the child!
-- Explain why the time out.
-- Make the child repeat back to mommy why child is in time out.
-- Depending on age do not make time outs too long (the important thing is that the child understand why).
-- Make sure the child stay in the time out as established by mommy.
-- If child comes out of time out without permission -- do not talk, put child back in time out (repeat until child stay in the time out you established -- do not feel guilty about the crying, thumping, etc.).
-- Make child apologize for what child did.
-- Hugs and kisses because time out is over.
-- Be consistent.
-- Same consequences for the same arguments, fights and hassles.
-- Write on a chalkboard of some kind what the rules are going to be for arguments, fights and hassles.
Ah, I forgot, be consistent!