https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 27 May 2026 02:54:06 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/discipline-advice-for-3-year-old#post-2723951 Thu, 13 Apr 2017 13:38:38 +0000 bookwormmama 2723951@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Canoli: I Googled " 123 Magic summary" and this was the first link...it looks like the one I used. Very through, but not super dense (I've heard the book is a rough read). </p> <p><a href="http://csgreeley.org/sites/default/files/files/1-2-3-magic.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://csgreeley.org/sites/default/files/files/1-2-3-magic.pdf</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/discipline-advice-for-3-year-old#post-2723916 Thu, 13 Apr 2017 11:50:53 +0000 Canoli 2723916@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bookwormmama: Thank you. I've heard a lot of people have success with this method. Do you, by chance, have the website you saw the outline on? I would love to say I have time to read the book but I'm not sure I do and would love a skinny-ed down version. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/discipline-advice-for-3-year-old#post-2723771 Thu, 13 Apr 2017 08:07:30 +0000 bookwormmama 2723771@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This is totally my newly turned 3 year old! He has always thought discipline was funny and copies us or laughs when we try to discipline him. We have been using 123 Magic with him and it's helping. I used a good outline I found online rather than reading the book. I wrote about it a little more on this thread: <a href="http://boards.hellobee.com/topic/booksmethods-for-wild-physical-2yo" rel="nofollow">http://boards.hellobee.com/topic/booksmethods-for-wild-physical-2yo</a> </p> <p>The outline I read specifically mentioned if they chose to continue the counting or copy your counting you can do two different things. You can chose to count it as one of their counts/chances, or you can ignore it. We ignore it because he seems to use it as a power thing, and I didn't really want to give him more power in the situation.</p> <p>Also, our son was doing timeouts in the crib for similar reasons, but he thought it was a joke and playtime. It wasn't doing anything to stop the behaviors and they were getting worse. We started taking toys/activities away after 3 warnings/counts or if he gets physical he goes in his room and we hold the door for a 3 minute timeout. He doesn't like either consequence and has taken discipline more seriously since we started doing it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/discipline-advice-for-3-year-old#post-2723764 Thu, 13 Apr 2017 07:55:31 +0000 Canoli 2723764@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My son's (who will be 3 next week) daycare provider approached me today and was inquiring about how we handle discipline at home with him. She indicated that when he is not following directions and they attempt to redirect him he either laughs at them or repeats everything she says. We experience this behavior at home and I have yet to find a tactic that works all of the time. We have tried ignoring these behaviors and trying to redirect by explaining that his actions are not appropriate or as a last resort we put him in the time out spot (which happens to be his crib because it is the only time out spot that he will stay in). </p> <p>I'm not sure if this is just "normal" behavior for this age but his teacher indicates that when he does this his friends also start doing this behavior and then she has a whole classroom behaving this way which is disruptive.</p> <p>I'm not sure if any of the following factors in as well but I have noticed in the past 2 weeks he is starting to have temper tantrums again much like when he just turned 2. We haven't seen these tantrums in a long long time. I restarted his Zyrtec about 2 weeks ago because of his seasonal allergies. He used Zyrtec last year and I didn't notice any behavior changes then but maybe this is contributing or maybe he just feels crummy because of the allergies (poor thing is sneezing and his eyes are all puffy). He has an older and younger brother and sometimes I wonder if he is craving attention from us. We do the best we can but it is hard with 2 working parents and 3 kids.</p> <p>Just looking for some other perspectives and/or advice that maybe we have not thought about. </p>