My two year daughter recently began sticking her tongue out and spitting. She has done this before but never at people. When she first started we warned her it was impolite and never spit at anyone. She accepted and understood and even repeated after us "No spit". Her first offense happened about two weeks ago, she got mad at my husband and spit at him in a fit. So we did what we always have done with bad behavior and put her in time-out, explained to her that what she did was mean and hurt daddy's feelings and good girls don't behave that way. She did her time, apologized and everything was good. This technique has worked for everything else but for some reason not with this. She did it again a couple of days later and laughed thinking it was funny. She laughed in time-out and spit at us again while in time-out. She reacted when we took away a certain toy or told her she could not watch her favorite show/movie that night so we figured ok, this is the way to handle it then. Again proven wrong the next time around she didn't care and danced around the house spitting everywhere and laughing. My best friend said when her son did it to her, she got mad and spit back and his feelings were so hurt he didn't do it again. Well...lol...yeah didn't work for us. She thought it was hysterical and laughed...it was hard for us not to laugh as well because how could we take ourselves seriously like that?? So we went back to time-out but I'm really at a loss here and don't know what else to do. I don't know if she's spitting at kids at daycare as well and I don't want her to do it to anyone else. There are certain things that we have drawn the line on that we will pop/spank for but I don't think spitting should be one of them. Does anyone have any suggestions?
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