http://winecountrymom.blogs.santarosamom.com/11175/inked/ Doing the single parent thing since 2004. This is the story of us. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:59:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://winecountrymom.blogs.santarosamom.com/11175/inked/comment-page-1/#comment-2697 Supernanny retiring – Wine Country Mom - Santa Rosa Mom - Santa Rosa, CA - Archive Fri, 05 Nov 2010 18:28:52 +0000 http://winecountrymom.blogs.santarosamom.com/?p=11175#comment-2697 [...] the brunt of the Taz’s creativity when he decided to color with permanent marker on paper….and the ink leaked. And, of course, the numerous parent-teacher conferences that resulted in me doing a lot of [...] [...] the brunt of the Taz’s creativity when he decided to color with permanent marker on paper….and the ink leaked. And, of course, the numerous parent-teacher conferences that resulted in me doing a lot of [...]

]]> http://winecountrymom.blogs.santarosamom.com/11175/inked/comment-page-1/#comment-1193 str4y Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:44:47 +0000 http://winecountrymom.blogs.santarosamom.com/?p=11175#comment-1193 Dude. That sucks. I have no input (shock!) or advice for this situation, but I wish you the best of luck and my good thoughts are with you. Oh, and don't think you're a bad mom 'cause he's...um...independent. Some people are less prone than others to respect authority figures is all. You say you were the same way, and you turned out great. Dude. That sucks. I have no input (shock!) or advice for this situation, but I wish you the best of luck and my good thoughts are with you. Oh, and don’t think you’re a bad mom ’cause he’s…um…independent. Some people are less prone than others to respect authority figures is all. You say you were the same way, and you turned out great.

]]> http://winecountrymom.blogs.santarosamom.com/11175/inked/comment-page-1/#comment-1192 Erica Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:17:10 +0000 http://winecountrymom.blogs.santarosamom.com/?p=11175#comment-1192 Our son is only six and we've already gone through a similar situation. He just didn't seem to care that all of his toys were taken away, he wasn't able to watch any movies, and he had to miss a birthday party with his friends. We decided that since we had followed through with everything we said we'd do that we were kind of at an impasse. Our only solution was that the chores that our son had to do in order to earn his stuff back doubled. What ended up happening was that he LOVED doing chores. His attitude turned completely around once I scheduled his day around being completely busy and working on something that gave instant results. It was a lot of work (for me), having to supervise and create new projects for him every ten minutes, but it got us turned around in a right direction. Our son is only six and we’ve already gone through a similar situation. He just didn’t seem to care that all of his toys were taken away, he wasn’t able to watch any movies, and he had to miss a birthday party with his friends. We decided that since we had followed through with everything we said we’d do that we were kind of at an impasse. Our only solution was that the chores that our son had to do in order to earn his stuff back doubled. What ended up happening was that he LOVED doing chores. His attitude turned completely around once I scheduled his day around being completely busy and working on something that gave instant results. It was a lot of work (for me), having to supervise and create new projects for him every ten minutes, but it got us turned around in a right direction.

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