Any suggestions on how to curb whininess? I have a two year old by the way, and we have tried timeouts. It works to stop it, but doesn't seem to prevent it. Help, if there is anything I can't stand it's whinyness.... We don't spank, or slap hands... I don't think it would work anyway... seems like it might start more crying lol. Anyway, any tips would be appreciated thanks.
Jules
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Your child is 2...that's what they do.
wow... thanks for that.... anyone else?
well i am not quite sure what you are looking for but you will be hard pressed to find a two year old who DOESN'T whine lol there really isn't much you can do about it but wait for it to pass lol
my little girl is a year and a half now and use to whine all the time. all i did to stop it (though it did take a while to do) was not give into her, and at times 'ignored' her when she whined. I'd leave her to whine for a bit (a few seconds) then ask her if she is done. sometimes she says yes and it's all done and fine and I'll ask her if she wants a hug, but here are times she says no so i leave her to it again until she is done. i tell her that when she is done she can come over. (I'm never far away..just enough so I'm not right beside her). sometimes it's just a bad day or something to the likes and i do get a whine or 2. and as long as you stick to whatever you do (even if it means enduring the whining for a bit to teach her/him that whining will get him/her nothing.
also make sure everyone who is around you child (babysitting or to the likes) keeps to the same thing you are doing, cause even after the whining problem is over it only takes giving in once to revert back.
GOOD LUCK!!
thanks rebecca, I do usually see if I can solve the issue.. and sometimes I just don't look at her. lol. its just hard on the head soemtimes, which is when i put her in timeout away from me so i can regain my cool. but i have been dealing with this for, like... months. am hoping it wont be much longer. I know she can talk, and could just ask for a lot of the things she wants or what ever if she wanted to...
i just thought i would see if anyone is doing anything different that is working for them anonymous... you must have a PERFECT child. If you dont have any advice to offer i dont know why you replied to my post.
actually i have a two year old who whines lol but..like i said that is what they do. no point in getting worked up over it...phases come and go. and i assume that you posted here because you were looking for advice. that was my 2 cents.
I think the advice was that your child is doing what a 2 year old NORMALLY does.
Austin knows a LOT of words, and when he whines at me, it's VERY frustrating, because I KNOW he knows how to just ask for what he wants.
We too were using timeouts with him, and he would stop whining the moment we put him in his room, BUT I don't find that it encourages him to use his words, so, I started only acknowledging him when he speaks words, or- at least attempted words. If he is whining, I pretend not to hear him, the moment he says anything that resembles a word I give him my immediate attention and reply.
We have just started doing this, and it seems to be encouraging him to speak much better than timeouts, which I will now save for other misbehaving instances, and hopefully it will make things more effective all around.
If you try this, let me know how it works out for you.
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