STEP 1 - Remember that it is your home and your family. Anything that annoys you is fair game for discipline. If it saps your energy than it needs to be rooted out for the good of all. Once it’s gone think of all the extra time and energy you can put towards family time!

STEP 2 - Explain to your children that you will be employing a new method of disipline. It goes like this – they’ve got three chances to knock it off before they go to time out (or whatever other disapline you can easily follow through with quickly).

STEP 3 – Once you hear any kind of fighting you say, “Joe and Sally, that’s one for both of you.”

STEP 4 - If they continue fighting or if they give you attitude for the ‘one’. Then they get a two.

STEP 5 - If they continue arguing with you or with each other, they get a three and it’s into time out.

STEP 6 - If you follow this method strictly, the petty arguments will cease with in a week – I guarantee it.

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