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Arguing

AbbyDarling143's picture

My SS7 argues INCESSANTLY. To the point where he argues over things that literally make no sense.

Example: I woke up for work at 645 AM Monday morning last week and he usually wakes up about 630. We make him stay in his room so he doesn't wake his sister until he hears me in the kitchen. He comes out once he knows I'm awake and says his sister woke him up. I told him I checked on her and she was still asleep so he needed to quiet down so he didn't actually wake her up. He then proceeded to say "yes she did" like 6 times before I could even respond and DH intervened.

How do you handle arguing? Have you found ways to stop it? At this point we tell him twice, if we have to say it a third time, he gets grounded from all electronics for the day. But it doesn't seem to be working.

LAMomma's picture

When kids argue with me I just state what I need to say and ignore them. If you don't feed into it they usually stop because it's not producing the attention they want. Sometimes it breaks the behavior because they're getting no reaction at all, no negative or positive.

Or I'll just tell them we don't talk back or argue and send them off. They usually get the hint with one of the two I've listed.