In the *Lost and Tired *family, we don't believe in spanking or hitting. So we have to do a lot of *outside of the box thinking*.
We recently took in a puppy a couple of months ago. Bella has been a great edition to the *Lost and Tired *family. Although she doesn't require some patience and training.
Elliott and Emmett are requiring a great deal of time, energy and most of all, *patience*. I'm becoming increasingly overwhelmed and frustrated by their behavior. Their are both *fanfreakingtastic *kids and I love them completely.
Having said that, sometimes I find myself wanting to use the *training *methods from Bella as a means of *deterring *the problem behavior with the boys.
Basically, it would go something like this. When Emmett and Elliott were fighting or doing something else they should not be doing, I would break out the *spray bottle* and squirt them. They both hate getting wet so I think it would work. The question is whether of not there is ethical issue with that :-)
Of course, I'm not actually going to do that but sometimes I wish I could.
When the boys start fighting, I could simply *squirt, squirt* and they would stop. Then I could keep the squirt bottle on the mantel to serve as a reminder.
Like I said, sometimes I just want things to stop and employing methods like a squirt gun or spray bottle don't *always *seem so wrong..
Anyone else ever feel this way?
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