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| I have a 15 month old little boy named Tony that will not stop pushing the off button on our television set. I don't know how to teach him not to do that. I've tried speaking firm to him and tell him not to do that and I've tried lightly smacking him on his little hand and ask him not to push the button but he still will not stop. Now he will go to the TV and turn it off and come to me and give me his little hand so that I can smack it and he is smiling the whole time. I can't move the TV set anywhere else. How can I teach a 15 month old not to do this? |
| Posted by Elizabeth on 03/13/2008 02:45 PM
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My son was doing that too. He was pushing the on and off button alot. I told him no firmly and shook my head and then distracted him by offering him something else with buttons to push. (preferrably that makes a noise such as toy cell phone). I hear the more of a reaction we give, they think its a game. (e.g. he sees smacking as a game) My son is 16 months old and does not hit the tv button nearly as much. Maybe now he turns it on once or twice. but rarely. We then just would laugh at him and he would walk away. I guess the novelty wore off.
Good luck! |
| posted by Jennifer on 03/13/2008 02:53 PM
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| Thanks for your advice. I will try giving some toys with buttons on them and see if that works. |
| posted by Elizabeth on 03/13/2008 03:36 PM
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Try this TV guard:
http://www.onestepahead.com/catalog/product.jsp?productId=5784&parentCategoryId=85183&categoryId=85216&subCategoryId=86202
Good luck. |
| posted by Tunde on 03/13/2008 03:58 PM
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| Thank you! |
| posted by Elizabeth on 03/13/2008 05:55 PM
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| My son (19 months) has been doing that FOREVER! UGH! I find the best way to deal with it is a frim NO and then ignore the behavior...walk away if you can. Distraction is a good tool too. It's tough because you can't easily reason with a 15 month old, and I'm so not a spanker, so the best advice I can give it to just keep saying NO, shaking your head, distracting and walking away. We tell our son that the TV is "taking a nap"...believe it or not, that works sometimes. Good luck! :) |
| posted by on 03/13/2008 07:28 PM
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| I've tried the firm NO and yesterday I even tried to just ignore it but he just kept doing it. Once he would turn the TV off he would turn around and look at me like he was wondering when was I going to turn it back on. Once he would realized that I was not going to turn it back on he would go back and turn it on his self and then wait like another 2 minutes and go back and turn it off, My 12 year old daughter was getting really upset but I kept telling her just ignore him. Well it didn't work...He kept at it for about an hour. Until he finally got tired and went to take a nap. At this point I'm really considering buying one of those TV guards! Thanks for the advice Lauren! |
| posted by Elizabeth on 03/14/2008 09:25 AM
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Hi Elizabeth
My son is 18 months and he has also been fascinated with pushing buttoms for about the last year. He believes all remote controls are his and that if he fiddles with buttons enough he will figure it out (already see a "guy not asking for help" in there:))
Anyway for us No hardly helps and as you say he might just try to turn it into a game. I found your saying about the tv really funny becuase i can relate.:
"Now he will go to the TV and turn it off and come to me and give me his little hand so that I can smack it and he is smiling the whole time. "
I also gave mine a light tap on the hand for repeated trying to turn the control the knobs on the stove, he laughed at me, did it again and stayed close by to wait for another tap on the hand.
We've occasionally tried to show him to "right" buttons to press instead, becuase i think its not so much he wants if "off" but to be assured that when he presses something he gets a reaction. So now he prefers to change the channel rather than turn on or off, or change to input selection to try to start the X-box. Helping him to use the buttons correctly worked a lot better for us than finding the best way to say no. |
| posted by Afihtan on 03/14/2008 09:38 AM
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