Today was one of those days whereas a father I had to make a difficult decision teaching my son values.
After numerous times of telling Tyler to behave, don’t take things that are not yours, and respect others and their possessions he pushed me somewhere where I did not want to go.
Tyler seems not to respect anything we give him. Seems he is coming down with some entitlement issues as well. But today he went into Mara’s room without her permission. He removed a portable mirror from her room. Pretending it was a phone which in the long run did not work so he decided to throw it down the stairs where it shattered into pieces.
Sometimes in life, there are consequences for the things you decide in life. Those things are called poor choices. As I mentioned earlier telling him numerous times to get his act together he just refuses. So it was lesson time. No! It was not a spanking. No! It was not standing in the corner. No! It wasn’t some futile punishment of standing in the corner or no tv. It would be something that will stick in his head and hopefully help him in the future not to make the same mistake again.
Usually to persuade someone you go after what they care about the most. In a toddler like Ty he holds his car sacred. He loves his cars. So I told him to bring down one of his toy cars. He came down and we made our way to the garage. I gave him a hammer and told him to break one of his cars. Then we spoke about what just happened. I talked to him about respecting other’s belongings. It may have or have not been the right lesson but I had to put a stop of what he was doing. Let’s see if that worked.