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Ok, so my 17mo daughter is spitting her milk or water. She'll take a couple of drinks , then she'll take a big drink and spit it. She's not upset, she's not being malicious -- I think she just thinks it's a fun thing to do. But it's really not.
So this has been going on for a month. At first we would scold her, saying "not nice" and make angry faces at her. She thought that was great and would mock us ... which is pretty hilarious to see her make an angry face and say "na nas" immediately after spitting her milk on the floor. So that wasn't effective. We tried being more angry sounding, but I think she just found that more entertaining. She is totally testing us.
I've tried having her clean it up ... so then she'd spit and run and get a towel -- which was a pretty fun game for her too.
Then I tried giving no reaction, but merely taking the cup and cleaning it up without a word. So then she'd spit and immediately thrust her cup to me.
We try reminding her to swallow from the second we give her the cup, but she's loving having our full attention the whole time she's drinking... and you can so tell she's playing games with us.- and yes, she still spits.
I've tried setting her in "time out" - which is the first and only time I've ever done a time out with her. I watch her spit, then immediately pick her up and set her on the rug and try and clean up the mess. She tries to get up and I reposition her, and sometimes physically restrain her on the rug for about 15 seconds. It really upsets her, she cries and cries. After 15 seconds, I release her and she climbs into my arms and cries for a couple more minutes. I explain to her that spitting is not nice and comfort her til she stops crying. I've done that 6 times now in the past day, and she is still spitting. I'm wondering if she understands the cause and effect of timeout?
She's really cute, but spitting your milk is totally not acceptable.
I'm wondering if I should give her water to gargle and spit while we brush our teeth in the morning .. cuz she sees me spit water when I brush my teeth. I'm thinking this might be a good outlet to let her explore spitting, in an acceptable fashion. But I'm afraid that this will make the problem worse?
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Angie
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| Posted by Angie on 10/26/2008 10:44 PM
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| my son is 18months and has been spitting a well. time out isn't really effective at this age, so distraction could work more. try giving absolutely no reaction. take the cup, say we don't spit, clean it up but don't really give her the attention and she will learn it is not a fun game. it is a stage, they will grow out of it. also, only give her like two or three swallows n thecup a a time, then she will drink it becasue he is thirsty, but if she doesn't ask for more than she is done and that way there isn't all that extra in the cup to spit... or dump ;) also a fun game.... she'll grow out of it. |
| posted by jackie on 10/26/2008 11:26 PM
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