SJ - You have a remarkably positive attitude about everything.
Re discipline: We do smack Jazz now and then, though currently the only affect it seems to have is her smacking us back. Recently I've been giving her warnings and then I put her in her room for 1-2 mins (sometimes slightly longer if I'm trying to do something like cook or serve dinner). Usually when I have put her in her room for more than 5 minutes she falls asleep.
On the times when she's in there for 1-2 mins, I then go and open the door and get down to her level and tell her that she had to have a time out because (whatever the reason is) and that she has to say sorry to mummy. She will say sorry and give me a hug. Sometimes she'll say sorry after the first warning before we even get to time out which is great.
This morning she came into our room at 5:30am, so I took her back to her room, put a DVD on and shut the door. An hour later when Matt got up and opened her door, she came into our room, climbed up on the bed next to me. Normally she will give us a good morning kiss without being asked. This morning she didn't do that so I asked her for one. She said "I don't wanna kiss" Not a nice sentence to hear, but I was excited that she said her first sentence. I asked her if she didn't want to give me a kiss because she was mad at me for putting her in her room this morning and she said "Yes. mad"
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