tabby30
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How do you discipline an 11 year old who has never been heavily disciplined before?
I have an 11 year old daughter and I have been having problems with her attitude and respect towards everyone. I know this is because I never disciplined her til about a year ago and I get discouraged easily when the techniques I try aren't working. My fiancee thinks she needs to pretty much be without anything til she earns it and I still feel if there are consistant punishments for her behavior that I still have a chance to change this behavior. I try to do timeout but usually it ends up with me all upset and angry. I have taken away things like tv for the day, but that dosen't seem to have an effect on her. Today she told my fiancee to shut up and I told her to get in time out. I then tried to guide her to her room and at that point my fiancee jumped in and told her to go eat and he would figure out her punishment. I told him later that I would figure it out because she needs to know she can't push me around. So after alot of thought and tears I came up with two things, no sports after school for the week and she was supposed to bring frogs home from school to take care of on spring break, so I told the teacher we had to pass up this activity for her. I worked through her 2 hours of tears so far and will follow through, but is this enough? We are starting to see a councelor about this but that will take time and I need to know how to figure out a system of punishments so she knows what will happen for certain behaviors.
In Topics:
Discipline and behavior challenges
> 60 days ago
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