This afternoon I found Britton turning his sippy cup upside down and pressing the straw against the floor. This made it leak.
So I sat Britton down in a "time out" and I told him that we do not play with our drinks and that sippy cups were for drinking. ( Before kids, I always said time outs were for wussies, but Britton responds really well to them!). He cried for a few seconds and then just sat there.
Time outs usually last about one minute, so after about a minute, I said, "We do not play with our cups. We drink from them". And then I said, "Okay, you can get up now. Come give Mama a big squeeze (hug)".
And he shook his head no. As in no, he was not going to get up.
Ummm, this was not something I had foreseen. So what to do now? Since he wanted to stay seated, should I have put him in a "standing up" time out? Should I have forced him to get up?
He sat there probably another minute while I figured out what to do. By then, I told him to get up again, and he complied. Thank goodness!
He is so stubborn!
I told Lewis about it when he got home from work, and he laughed and said it sounded like something he would have done. Grrreaaaattttttt......................
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