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Posted by Elizabeth on June 13, 2003 at 00:42:40:
In Reply to: Speration Anxiety! posted by Bobvi on June 12, 2003 at 18:10:58:
: I baby sit 3 little boys. Ages 5 1/2, 4, and 18 mo. The 4 year old was the youngest for a very long time as the youngest was an accident ("my perfect accident" mom says). He has recently started to go backwards. Crying for things, having tantrums, talking like a baby, and alltogether doing anything he can (eating in a high chair) to get attention. Good luck. It is more difficult because this is not your child and who knows what her mother will think if you give him a time out in a chair or send him to his room. I would talk to his mother about how he acts and if she would allow you to discipline him with a time-out or send to his room? Hope this helps.
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: The worst of all his tricks is crying whenever mom leaves for any reason. Mom goes to work Thursdays and I come over to watch them for a few hours until dad gets home. Every single time she leaves, mom gives hugs and kisses. The 4 year old always demands more hugs, more kisses, that he needs to tell mom something, he needs to show mom something, mom needs to get him a snack, mom needs to wipe his boogers, pretty much anything he can think of. He cries and wines for about half an hour. He'll throw himself on the floor and demands I get him up. He does his best to get outside and see where mom is. He demands I call her, or I drive him to her work. He'll say I should call my mom to drive us to his mom's work...
: Does ANYONE have ANY suggestions about how I can get him to stop crying?
Gosh, if he was your kid I would tell you to send him to his room and tell him he could come out when he is finished crying and screaming. My 1-1/2-year-old daughter was so bad that I couldn't even sit on the toilet because she would throw tantums and want me to hold her until I sent her to her room and told her she could come out when she was done crying and then when she was done I gsve her hugs and kisses and told her I love her but do not like it when she screams for no reason. The second time she tried this I said, "do you want to go to your room?" She said no!! and never did this again.