With my kids, it’s not the asking of the questions I mind, as I love answering questions too! Being a dad is one of my favorite things ever. The part that gets frustrating is when. They ask me a question but don’t listen to my response. It’s not that they didn’t understand, mind you… they simply tuned me out as soon as I started talking. And believe me, I’m explaining things in a way they could understand. That drives me nuts when anyone does this, like don’t make me waste my breath! Why bother to ask?
I’ve come up with a good punishment at least: I either ball up my fist and punch ‘em in the butt, or I choke their pet rabbit while telling them “look what you did! This is your fault!”
Nothin’ wrong with that, amirite?
I taught some cousin’s kids how to swim. I tried to teach my daughter to swim but she refused to listen. Enrolled her in swimming classes where the teacher said and did the exact same things and she went on about how they showed her the exact same things and it worked. Literally the same things with the same amount of patience. Repeat this pattern for her first 17 years of life on various stuff, it just had to come from someone else.
She finally started listening to me this year about stuff! Yay! I didn’t change anything, she just finally decided that maybe I do know what I’m talking about.
Could it also be that she saw other kids doing the same? Peer pressure seems to be a huge part of child psychology, and there are ways to weaponise it for good. Such as giving a child to classes :)
It was also the case when it was one on one with of her teachers/coaches. I’m sure someone will jump in with “it was something you did” but seriously I have no issues with teaching other kids, she just didn’t want to learn from me or her mom.
Maybe she resented us for making her clean up her room and do other chores or something.
With my kids, it’s not the asking of the questions I mind, as I love answering questions too! Being a dad is one of my favorite things ever. The part that gets frustrating is when. They ask me a question but don’t listen to my response. It’s not that they didn’t understand, mind you… they simply tuned me out as soon as I started talking. And believe me, I’m explaining things in a way they could understand. That drives me nuts when anyone does this, like don’t make me waste my breath! Why bother to ask?
I’ve come up with a good punishment at least: I either ball up my fist and punch ‘em in the butt, or I choke their pet rabbit while telling them “look what you did! This is your fault!” Nothin’ wrong with that, amirite?
I taught some cousin’s kids how to swim. I tried to teach my daughter to swim but she refused to listen. Enrolled her in swimming classes where the teacher said and did the exact same things and she went on about how they showed her the exact same things and it worked. Literally the same things with the same amount of patience. Repeat this pattern for her first 17 years of life on various stuff, it just had to come from someone else.
She finally started listening to me this year about stuff! Yay! I didn’t change anything, she just finally decided that maybe I do know what I’m talking about.
Could it also be that she saw other kids doing the same? Peer pressure seems to be a huge part of child psychology, and there are ways to weaponise it for good. Such as giving a child to classes :)
It was also the case when it was one on one with of her teachers/coaches. I’m sure someone will jump in with “it was something you did” but seriously I have no issues with teaching other kids, she just didn’t want to learn from me or her mom.
Maybe she resented us for making her clean up her room and do other chores or something.
Could be, lol