You've all been there. You've got a playdate over for your kids and they start misbehaving. Or maybe it's just the other kid. Sure, it's easy to snap back at your own flesh and blood, telling him for the umpteenth time not to play dodge ball in the house. But what about the other kid?
Disciplining is just another one of a parent's tough jobs. It's part of the whole teaching process. But if it's another family's child, is it your responsibility to teach them? To scold or punish them for doing something wrong?
Hell yeah, it is!
If a kid's over at my house doing something against our rules, you better believe I'm going to yell at him. To be fair, I'd treat him just like my own kids. If it's something minor, I'd just talk to them and tell them to cut it out. But if it's something dangerous or he's about to break something valuable, the kid gloves are off.
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What I really don't get is when the parents are over too, the kid misbehaves, and nothing happens. Not a peep. I've seen so many kids act like, well, spoiled little brats, trashing a place right under their parent's nose. The parents ignore their kids and just keep talking to the other adult. And I've gotta admit, dads are just as guilty as moms in this one.
When that happens in my own house, my wife's way too nervous to say anything. It could really ruin her friendship with the other mother, she'll say. Personally, I couldn't care less. If a kid's that obnoxious and disrespectful, I don't want him in my house. And if his own parents aren't going to do more than mutter a single, "Now cut that out," I have no problem dropping the hammer. Whether their parent's around or not, if a kid's doing something wrong, they're going to hear it from me.
If we're at your house, though, by all means let your kid walk on furniture, play Frisbee with the fine china, and draw on the walls with permanent markers. Your house, your rules.
So if you're too afraid to discipline your own child, then keep him way clear of my house. Otherwise, if he's not careful, he may actually learn something.
Do you discipline other parents' kids?
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my friends kids are like an extention of my own family, while i'll gently disapline them like say, can you not jump on my couch, it's old, and I don't want it to break, i'll leave the major disapline to thier mother. And my friend does the same, she'll tell my son not to slam doors, or not to play too rough with the little kids, but she'll tell me if he does something major. I think the only time i really ever yelled at her son was when i yelled at both him and my son from jumping off my sons dresser onto the bed, but that was a dangerous thing and he booked it out of my sons room real fast. but she totally understood that.
I didn't really let my kid over at too many people's houses. He went to homes I was familiar with and trusted to be able to handle disciplin without having to yell and hit.
I have disciplined lots of other people's children without yelling. WTH is wrong with people they can't scold a kid without yelling. Calm the hell down before dealing with children. How effective do you think you are at teaching and modeling behavior when you are out of control?
And before you start making suppositions, my son is 18, respectful to me and others and hasn't been in any major trouble.
Um wow, i dare someone to dicipline my kid with yelling and screaming are you kidding me??? How do you know that the child you invited to your home doesnt have autism??? And when they do something its not because they are being bad its because the impulise is there and they follow through. I have never once had to dicipline a friends child ever. All they need is one look and they are done but no I am not going to yell and scream and act like a damn fool.
there's no reason to yell at children speak to them normally. My boy ever comes to your place and you yell at him instead of talk to him you best believe not only will he never be back but I will be in your face dishin your garbage right back at ya.
Takes a whimp to yell at a child try it on an adult.
Jaime, hopefully if you had a child with autism and were close enough to another family to let your child go to their house, you would tell them about the diagnosis beforehand. It would be pretty unfair to send a kid over to be supervised by another person and withhold such a vital piece of information.
i yell at my firends kids when they are bad like i do my won. just as my friends do to mine whether i am ther and dont see it or not. if a child does something so horribly bad that you don't even know what to do, i will take them by the hand and excort them to their mother for whatever discipline she may have in store for them. its a mommy agreement at least in my circle that you can punish my kid the sam way you would yours, just no spankings.