Posted by frogpond1 on 19:19 Jan 11
In Reply to: Can we talk Manners and House Rules? posted by sandra Dumas
about a place where all the talking and humming can happen, and have a zone where it is a quiet area. What about a place to wrestle? I think all those actions sound normal for a boy, so what you are working on is knowing when it is appropriate and where. We have this Queen size futon that we fold out as our wrestling area and we have socker boppers for it too. The living room, dining room and kitchen are the quiet zones and the playroom is the place to wrestle etc. Toys come out in the playroom and then get put away unless they are on the train table (used for Legos or Playmobil etc.). Now, my house is pretty small and not as organized as I would like with 4 children, but we work on survival here. I just think for kids they can understand quiet spaces and play spaces and quiet times and rowdy times and when we go to Grandma's- her house is a quiet space. Toys talking to each other is cute. Screaming and yelling is not cute. It probably is just a matter of degrees. "Inside voices" and "outside voices" might work. Could your son have a hearing problem? If he always talks loud, there could be a reason. My youngest is 6 now and his hearing isn't that great. He is pretty loud at times too. You are on the right track, but just think that when you take something away, give a replacement action in its place.