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writes: My brother (who's 5) lives with me and my boyfriend (for personal reasons). My bro keeps swearing at me or my boyfriend when he's not getting his way. I put him in time outs almost everyday. He'll stay in time out like 2 seconds then he'll ran off so that's when I add 5 minutes to it (he usually gets 5 minutes). The longest he ever had was 2 hours. Hes also has problems at school with all the fights and swearing at teachers. If he gets one more fight at school he'll be expelled. What do I do?FromHannah Reply to this Question
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reader, anonymous, writes (12 December 2008): He's obviously a disturbed little boy and I can only guess at what the reasons for him living with you are.
Discipline has gone out the window these days with this namby-pamby government imposing legal restraints on discipline methods which include anything involving pain to the transgressor. If I'd have sworn at my parents or anyone else at that age I would have earned a very swift back-hander to the side of the head or a slap to the back of the legs and sent to my room for the rest of the day without food or drink. Any escape attempt would have been met with another walloping. That approach worked quite well in general. The modern method of sitting a kid on 'The Naughty Stool' for example, is to my mind both time consuming and ineffective and we're breeding a nation of juvenile delinquents as a result of this lack of discipline at home.
I don't think a slap to the ear is very sensible because it might involve bursting the kid's eardrum, but one to the back of the legs will get the message across. It's quick, painful and effective and that's how I'd try to control this kid. If Social Services poke their noses in, suggest that they take him off your hands and have a go at controlling him if they think they can do any better.
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reader, anonymous, writes (12 December 2008): First of all i am sorry to hear he is such a problem, but you gotta take his toys away and maybe that will help. Start using a little more discipline towards him. Thats all i got for now. good luck
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reader, xxidkxx  +, writes (12 December 2008):
 wow,
i have a little brother and he was like that too have you tryed putting soap in his mouth?..
my mom would also reward him with a new toy, or a treat when he came home from school with a good report.
i hope that helps.
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