Nora was sat at her naughty area for quite a few times today. I’m trying to get her to listen to me. Yes, I let her get away with little things, but she needs to hear me when I tell her things; she needs to know that there are rules that she needs to follow… no matter how irrelevant she feels it is.

When I tell her to pick up her toys and she started to throw the toys that I’ve put to the side, I told her to sit still and not to do it. She giggled probably thinking it was a game. So I took her to the naughty corner and told her to sit and think. When she tried to get up, I sat her back down. She knew then that I meant business.

But I have to do this, sit her at her naughty area. I’m hoping that it will give her time to reflect… and the same goes to me too. Rather than me screaming at her and making both of us upset, this way, both of us reflect for a minute and at the end of it, we give each other big hugs.

I’m also doing this for her own safety. Nora really thinks she’s invincible. She loves doing a bit of gymnastics and also stand on the chair in the kitchen. Every time I tell her to sit down, she ignores me. She can’t see that she might hurt herself. The thing is, sometimes I just let her be… like she was banging the door at my late grandma’s house. My mom was worried that her fingers will get caught. I told her that if I stop her now, she’ll just keep doing it… so, I let her be until she came crying and I told her that it happens if she keeps banging the door. She stopped doing it.

But falling off a chair is something I rather not happen to her. So when she kept ignoring me, I put her at her naughty corner. She might not understand why, but I’m hoping that she’ll learn that she’s not allowed to stand on the chair.

Yes, I scream at her constantly and I’m the one who put her at the naughty corner… but it always ends with hugs… and she knows that I love her deeply.