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3-Year-old Doesn't Respond to Punishments/reinforcements
I have a 7yo boy and a 3 yo boy. For the 7yo when he was a toddler, we took away tv and toys and other priviliges as punishments for bad behavior. He responded as I expected in that he straightened up the bad behavior. My 3yo does not respond to this at all. I tell him I'm taking away movies (he loves movies like Thomas and Cars 1 more than anything else he can do with his time) but that does not phase him and he keeps up the bad behavior (such as getting out of bed when he shouldn't, saying no to putting away toys, hitting his brother,...
