Do you tell your kids no just to ....

Consistency is important. When I tell my daughter NO its NO. I work from home. So I am here with her and when she comes home from school.(preschool)She has figured out that she might be able to get a different answer if she waits for daddy to get home. However this has only happend a few times. We try to present a united front.

My younger siblings have been known to do that a lot. So most of the time, if my siblings ask our parents for something the second time, they just say, "NO and that is the end of discussion on this issue!" My siblings would not dare ask our parents anymore because they know that they just irritated them. My parents do not tolerate that kind of nonsense! NO means NO. My parents have never in their life changed a decision that they make. -Feel Free to Disagree!

If I tell my son no, it means no. We might let him get by with doing something 2 times, after we tell him just 1 more time, but that's it. Never more than that. He knows that what mommy says is what matters (or daddy if he's the one around).

You don't even train a dog like this..i hate to put it this way but it popped in my head...you just tell them once in a stern manner..my kids are 37 and 36 so i never hit them but they knew not to do this and I did not have custody of them but seen them on weekens and holidays in the summer..vacation.. but they were not always perfect and sure they pouted..or probably thought i was a fool..but they knew not to do this at an EARLY AGE...but my folks never hit me but that came later or when I was in school..then it was allowed..i guess..but you should be able to control them the first time...but six is just making you look like a fool.

It is annoying to watch or listen to. We say no and mean no, but our kids keep asking anyway (usually in 5 - 10 min. intervals) until we get the really mean sounding no out, with the threat that they won't get to do it the next day either. I don't know why they do that, because we don't give in.

Probably they are doing this because they had results with this behaviour before. Our parents did a better job with us in a very old fashioned way and it works so very well. Get the board and lock it up. Get the cookies and keep it away. Pull out the internet connection. It worked with mine. Now they listen to music on earphone, don´t watch the TV during the Week and get better marks at school, even go out to play with their freinds.

As i remember from my childhood,i hated when my parents don't buy me stuff not because of no money,but because of that,they don't want to :( It depends on what kids ask.