christic
07-06-2004, 02:04 PM
Anyone else deal with this?
I know she's testing boundaries, but I'm just not sure how to react in this situation. Alice will pull back her little hand like she's going to hit me and then either bring it down and not touch me or sort of turn it into an unconvincing pat. This only happens with me, and I know she's watching very closely to see what I'll do--unfortunately I don't know what I should do.
A real hit is an automatic time out--but what about these weird pretend ones? Should even acting it out be cause for a time out also? Too complicate matters on vacation Daddy taught her to run and pretend box a la Rocky Balboa x(. No time out if she pretends to punch the air, but time out if it's in the direction of a person???
Mainly I've been trying to just get up and away from her and the distraction ends it but then wonder if I should try harder to get it to stop altogether. It doesn't happen very often, but the next time it does I'd rather have a plan for handling it...help!
I know she's testing boundaries, but I'm just not sure how to react in this situation. Alice will pull back her little hand like she's going to hit me and then either bring it down and not touch me or sort of turn it into an unconvincing pat. This only happens with me, and I know she's watching very closely to see what I'll do--unfortunately I don't know what I should do.
A real hit is an automatic time out--but what about these weird pretend ones? Should even acting it out be cause for a time out also? Too complicate matters on vacation Daddy taught her to run and pretend box a la Rocky Balboa x(. No time out if she pretends to punch the air, but time out if it's in the direction of a person???
Mainly I've been trying to just get up and away from her and the distraction ends it but then wonder if I should try harder to get it to stop altogether. It doesn't happen very often, but the next time it does I'd rather have a plan for handling it...help!