Hello!

I was wondering what other people do to discipline their children. We used the naughty mat then moved to the naughty corner for our 2 year old. He is not a bad child but at the moment he won’t stop throwing all of his toys and putting him in the corner doesn’t seem to do nothing any more he just comes away smiling. Any other suggestions and any tips on how to discipline a 2 year old?

Posted by Natalie 2.3.2013


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  • Two yesr olds need to be taught expectations, they don’t know what they’re doing is “naughty”, it’s just fun for them.


  • It was interesting reading the answers to this!


  • There are some good tips here.


  • hope you got your solution


  • try and get him to pick up all his toys that he throws and put back in the toy basket


  • Did any of the advice below help?


  • The toys he is throwing-take them away as punishment.


  • I hope it goes well for you and you see some improvement in her behaviour


  • You just need to try different methods and find what works, and be persistent!


  • A lot of good tips Hope you were able to resolve the issue


  • I hope you have found an answer since posting this question. If not, I would suggest action appropriate dicipline. If he throws his toys, he loses them for ten minutes.


  • Have you worked out a way on disciplining your 2 year old yet?


  • You can also try putting him in his room and shutting the door


  • When he goes to the naughty corner are you totally ignoring him?? And is it away from what is going on with the rest of the family??


  • We tried the naughty chair.
    It hard to get a 2 year old to stay put.
    Maybe take a toy away..


  • it’s my son exactly, i thought it was bad at 2, he is almost 4 now and absolute terror. i put him in his room for a time out, but it doesn’t do much, so i started taking his toys away every time he is nasty, i get better results but still far from ideal


  • We’re just coming into this phase, but I was told by someone that it may be a good idea to actually put half of his toys away in a cupboard,so he doesn’t have as many to make a mess with. And then as a reward for tidying up of other good behaviours, he can choose a toy from the cupboard to play with for a certain time period. Might help?? And also, encourage him to help with picking up his toys, he’s not too young to be doing this. You may need to do it with him, but make sure you’re not doing it all yourself.


  • Redirect him to more appropriate play, but also get him to help clean up whatever mess he’s made. If he doesn’t, then take that particular toy away and tell him he can’t play with it for x amount of time.


  • The type of discipline depends on the child i think


  • Ahh yes, it’s the terrible twos!! Perhaps take away is toys and tell him unless he looks after them he can’t have them to play with.


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