Originally Posted by
i_forget
My daughter left a pile of scrap paper on the living room floor.
i told her to pick it up and she ignored me, so I opted for natural consequences parenting.
instead of nagging, or picking it up my self, I left it there. An hour later she was tearing ass through the living room, hit the paper and fell on her ass.
i told her "i told you to pick up your paper....guess I was right. How is your elbow?"
she cleaned up her paper, did not say a word to me.
She s going to be one hell of a woman :)