Today was a rough day for my Courtney. I didn't want to go anywhere because I wanted Caylee to get her full naps since she is sick. So we were home all day (except for our walk) and Courtney was so bad. She was testing me all day and no discipline was working. I tried everything. We had a pretty good morning. I took out this DVD set that the church gave us and Courtney loved it. She was having so much fun. We did our walk after I fed the baby, I had brought food for Courtney since we would be gone thru lunch. We met our friends for the walk and the whole time she did everything she knew she shouldn't. I had to discipline her several times. When we got home she got a time out and was sent straight to bed.
I headed down to relax and opened the fridge to make my lunch and look down to see ampair of little feet. I close the door to see Courtney standing next to me. She has NEVER done that before. So I take her up to her room and tell her if she gets out again she will get a spanking. Within a minute she got out again, and again each time resulting in a spanking. The worst part was the smile on her face each time she came out her door. Then after the spankings were obviously not doing the trick I took away all the toys and books in her bed. She screamed and cried. I thought I had finally gotten to her. Nope! She was out again. So I put her blanky and lamby in time out. At this time all she had was her bink. Again she was out, so I took that away too. Now she had nothing. She proceeded to scream at me, push over her gate and get out over and over again. I just camped out by her door. Meanwhile, Caylee woke up in all the commotion, she was screaming and not feeling well. I did get her to fall asleep in the swing between Courtney escapes. I felt like I was in an episode of "The Nanny". This went in for 2 hours and 40 min. Then I went in and made her put her nose in the corner for 5 min. I let her go potty and gave her back her 3 favorite sleep items. I put her back in bed, warned her and she went to sleep. My goodness! She ended up sleeping so long that I woke her for dinner.
She continued to act out all night. I played dress up with her and gave her lots of attention. Nothing worked. I needed to put Caylee to bed and feed her. Caylee's temp keeps going up, my poor little love bug was just miserable today.
I made Courtney a sticker chart while she was napping, hoping it would help with incentive. So I put Courtney to bed as normal. Within 2 min she was out of bed! So the whole process started again. She obviously didn't learn. So I did the same thing, this time I skipped a few steps and did the nose in the corner a bit faster. But it worked for some reason.
I am so tired of this. Why today? Was she just testing me? Is this fun for her? Does she need more of my attention? Would it have helped if I had taken her to playgroup this morning.
Tomorrow is a new day. I hope the stickers/pennies will help give her incentive to behave.
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