Parenting Win: Wednesday!
Parenting Win: Wednesday!
What's something you're proud of either with your own parenting abilities, you're kiddo doing something cool or just anything relating to parenting that's going good (or at least not bad)! Let's meet each other with a "win!".
My 4 year old apologized to me without prompting and it was a proper apology not just sorry. She got my attention and said "Sorry, I kicked you." It's the first time I've ever gotten a proper apology from her.
That's fantastic! Way to go to you both. I'm sure that took some work. We're just now getting to the point with mine where she understands if she does something she shouldn't. (Almost 2). We try to have her understand right and wrong and to have her say sorry. I guess the very beginning of learning how to discipline. It's weird to be here already...
It's been a long road. I realized the first thing I had to teach her was the concept of a mistake because honestly most of the stuff she did to say sorry about wasn't on purpose. She kicked me accidentally after all. So stared modeling the phrase "I made a mistake" and disconnecting that stuff like spilling water was worthy of punishment (which is my parent's fault). So if she did stuff like that her "punishment" was just to fix it. clean up spills, pick up food you drop, etc. When you hurt people say sorry and say why you're sorry. She's ASD, so teaching stuff takes a long time, so it was a true victory when she did it.
Daughter absolutely loved swimming yesterday, she is having so much fun. The win part is I believe since we got her in a very early baby swim lessons she has absolutely no fear of the water, she loves wearing her life jacket and trying to swim by herself. She was having a blast we swam for an hour and she didn't want to get out at all!