eekhelpmeee
Sep 8, 2009, 09:19 PM
I work at home babysiting an infant and a two yr old, I have a three yr old and am pregnant with my second child. First let me explain that my daughter has been an angel since day one, every single person who has babysat has told me she is the best kid they've ever watched!:rolleyes: she is amazing, she listens to dad perfect, and me about half the time ( he's way more intimidating and strick) but really has never given me too serious of problems...
But when I babysit my friends kids, my daughter has horns, I cannot beieve how terrible she acts and I don't know what to do with her! We recently moved into a two story house with roomates living downstairs so in the mornings I try to keep the kids resonably quiet, we have hard wood floors so I set a no running inside rule and no screaming... gues what their FAVORITE thing to do is? But my daughter will go from swinging around our lamp, pulling on the curtains, picking on the puppy, hitting the two yr old, running, screaming to yelling at me and telling or screaming no at me when I ask something of her! :mad: I've tried sending her to her room, which she always tells me no to, I've tried time outs, taking away things like a toy or saying were not going to watch her movie, I used to not believe in spanking, but I find myself spanking her everyday and that's still not doing it, she still will go back to acting out and screaming about everything.
And it doesn't help that the kids I babysit are special stories of their own, but they'll listen to me, I know a lot about kids I've been working w them for a few yrs and have always loved childcare, I quit my job at a daycare to stay hom and watch these kids and have my daughter with me, but I'm really beginning to regret it, I'm just at wits end and have no clues niether does anyone else, all I hear is either do you spank her? Or people don't believe she can be such a terror... what do I do??
But when I babysit my friends kids, my daughter has horns, I cannot beieve how terrible she acts and I don't know what to do with her! We recently moved into a two story house with roomates living downstairs so in the mornings I try to keep the kids resonably quiet, we have hard wood floors so I set a no running inside rule and no screaming... gues what their FAVORITE thing to do is? But my daughter will go from swinging around our lamp, pulling on the curtains, picking on the puppy, hitting the two yr old, running, screaming to yelling at me and telling or screaming no at me when I ask something of her! :mad: I've tried sending her to her room, which she always tells me no to, I've tried time outs, taking away things like a toy or saying were not going to watch her movie, I used to not believe in spanking, but I find myself spanking her everyday and that's still not doing it, she still will go back to acting out and screaming about everything.
And it doesn't help that the kids I babysit are special stories of their own, but they'll listen to me, I know a lot about kids I've been working w them for a few yrs and have always loved childcare, I quit my job at a daycare to stay hom and watch these kids and have my daughter with me, but I'm really beginning to regret it, I'm just at wits end and have no clues niether does anyone else, all I hear is either do you spank her? Or people don't believe she can be such a terror... what do I do??