I have a 3 year old son and we can be fairly strict with him. I call him out if he is misbehaving and will put him in timeout regardless of who is around us because I want him to be respectful. I understand that parents aren’t as strict as we are, but I’ve been in some rough situations the last few weeks.I babysit a 2 year old while her mom works from home. Her mom and I had gone over what to do if she hits. Put her in her bed for about a minute and make her apologize.So she hit my son. I pick her up and scold her as I take her to her room. Right as I go to get my son so she can apologize her mom comes in and yells at me. Saying that she’s 2 and I need to be more patient with her. Accused me of yelling at her daughter all day (my son was being bad so I had been on HIM quite a bit) and asked if I even saw her hit him or if he made it up (I witnessed the whole thing) She later admitted she overreacted a bit (we are both pregnant so tension are high and she could hear us, not see us) Since then I’ve been really nervous to do anything to correct her behavior. Yesterday she took a toy from my son in front of her mom and didn’t really know what to do. I didn’t want to get yelled at again.Today a friend and his 6 year old came by to help with yard work and his son has a mouth on him. If my son spoke to strangers the way this kid spoke to me while his dad wasn’t around I would probably smack him. I don’t want to raise my voice at someone else’s kid, but when he does dangerous things like kick my dog or blatantly ignore me when I tell him not to run in the street, I have to stop it.So my question is how do you handle friends watching and discipling your kids? via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/2A46Tfi
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