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[boywholives]

We were invited to a late lunch today with Shane and Amelia, but decided to stay in instead. Emmy has been a right terror the past couple of days, and I for one did not want to reward her with an afternoon coddling her favourite plaything. Honestly, I'm about at my wit's end with her...she's deliberately been contrary, and when I told her that I

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[dracolicious]

All right, the rugrat is enjoying a time-out. I fail to see how this will solve anything, but the bloody parenting books cleverly talk around the problem instead of telling you how to fix it.

[boywholives]

Considering how she's in a room full of toys, I fail to see how it's much of a deterrent for her behaviour.

[dracolicious]

Wibble has her confined to the corner for fifteen minutes, at which point she may quietly play with a toy of her choice. She was squirming before I even left the room.

[boywholives]

I'd ask what method of punishment your parents used on you when you got like this...but I don't think that I want to know.

[dracolicious]

Mother was the benevolent force that stilled my father's hand.

[boywholives]

And the whips, too, I'm sure. Bastard.

[dracolicious]

I would rather have My Babies rule the house than suffer a raw bottom.

[boywholives]

I never disagreed with that...

[dracolicious]

Well, then, feel free to stop mocking my methods.

[boywholives]

I'm not mocking you.

[dracolicious]

I did what the book told me to do.

[boywholives]

That book have any advice on getting her to not hate her brother?

[dracolicious]

Hardly.

I'm beginning to suspect that this isn't a very good book.

[boywholives]

I think we should just...figure things out on our own.

I still need to ask Molly about the whole sibling thing.

[dracolicious]

And I really need to beg a few bacon pies from her.

[boywholives]

Way to stay focused on the important things at hand.