3 year old purposefully not listening
My 3 year old has developed a habit this week when she knows it’s time to do something, she will run away and act like she’s playing around. She knows it’s time to get ready, she saw me grab everything out. She on her own said her name and, “come here” bc she knows I was about to ask (she is a gestalt language processor, so she does a lot of repeating of phrases she hears)
Since I never actually asked, I’m just ignoring her right now bc she’s obviously trying to get my attention by not listening. She keeps running around pretending like she’s gonna come over to me then runs away, and she says “come here baby” or something bc she is expecting me to ask that, and now she’s saying “mommy” bc she wants me to see her not listening and get a reaction. And like I said I didn’t even ask her to come over or anything yet, she just knew it was coming. Just trying to not encourage the not listening, and not even react right now
But my question is what do I do when I DO ask her to do something and she acts this way? When she purposefully is ignoring what I am asking? I have been giving her one more chance to listen then I’ve physically been picking her up to bring her where she needs to be but im not sure if that’s the right thing to do. Sometimes she will laugh at that. I’ve also tried ignoring when she is making it obvious she isn’t listening and sometimes it takes her 10 mins but she usually eventually will come over and she will tell herself “good job” bc she decided to listen eventually. Like I said, this behavior just started this week so I’m trying to make sure we handle this the right way from the beginning and I know we need to be consistent with it, I just don’t know what we should be consistently lol
Thank you!
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