Saturday, May 3, 2014

Problem-solving, take 1!

Charlotte and I have been having problems with wipes.  Her problem is that she takes them out of the package (sometimes many at a time), despite (because of?) knowing that she's not supposed to.  She's not cleaning anything; she just wants to play with them.  My problem is that after it has happened several times in one day, I am apt to resort to yelling.  Yesterday, after it had happened for the fifth time or so (with flaunting and giggling on her part and yelling on mine), I apologized for yelling, explained how frustrated I was that she kept doing this, and asked if she could help me come up with something I could do instead of yelling that would get her to stop pulling wipes out.  She said, "you could stomp, and then clap, and then hold out your pinky fingers, like this." (Demonstrates.)  I then repeated the sequence, saying, "if I do this, then you will stop getting wipes out?"  "Yes."  We agreed that if she wants to get wipes out, she will come ask me, and I will do it, and then she won't get the wipes.  Problem solved?  Stay tuned.

No comments:

Post a Comment