Just Out Of Interest

[TWR]

Your children can be a pain in the rs at times with back Chatting, stubborn, trying to be clever if their mates are around, what form of correction do you use?

[EcclesCake]

None.

[ummmm]

Never really had to deal with it.

[Zacs-Master]

I found that making them look silly in front of their peers usually worked. And a suspension of privelidges.

[ummmm]

I think them knowing you'd see the punishment through works. So many parents make empty threats.

[hc4361]

Oooops - wrong thread. Aplogies

[TWR]

Hoi HC, put the bottle down will you, it's only 11.50 lol

[Ken4155]

Stop their mates coming round until your children learn to behave themselves.

[Ken4155]

And, as Ummmm says, seeing the punishment through is a must. Back in '94, my then 14 y.o. daughter stole 6 cigarettes off me. I told her that each ciggy would cost her a week's pocket money - £5, at the time. Despite the protestations of my then partner, i stuck to my guns and those cigs were the most expensive she will ever buy. And she never stole from me again - to my knowledge, at least.

[Eleena]

Haven't had that dilemma TWR. If I had, I'd have a word one to one about being respectful and how disappointed I were in them. If they crossed that line again, I'd tell them to stay away until they learned respect.

[TWR]

My 2 were told once, warned, or paid the price, they stayed in unless going to school, it worked Eleena.

[horselady]

Agree Eleena, when mine were young all the shouting in the world was water off a duck's back, but if I just quietly told them I was really disappointed in them, it always made them a bit tearful and sad and seemed to have the right result.

[mikey4444]

My Mum used to use humiliation, which always worked, although my parents were much stricter than most seem to be these days.

[Islay]

All I know is that I would never punish any kids in the way that I was punished.

[NoMercy]

I had some brutal "hidings" when I was growing up. I was repeatedly told, "Let's not tell anyone we fell out."

The trauma will never leave me and I have frequent flashbacks to this day.

[mallyh]

my grandson's mum bans him from his xbox etc x

[atalanta]

Threaten to go and do a striptease at their school as part of the Christmas show.