Captive Children, Why?

I just read an article about a woman who locked her three year old in a hot attic because he was misbehaving. All I can say is that I have a three year old and a four year old, yes they can try my patience but I have never thought about locking them up. This attic was dirty, poop was everywhere, duh, where was the kid going to go potty? He used the poop to finger paint on the walls, duh, he had nothing else to do. The window had been nailed shut and the attic door had been locked, how was he getting any air? Family and friends are telling people that she is a single mother with three other children and she lost her patience with the child. She’s not a monster they are saying. Ok, well according to her other children, she did this often when she was angry.

Yes my children drive me crazy too, but if you find the proper stimulai they will leave me alone. For example, when my 4 year old wants my attention he will stand there and keep asking me the over and over. I tell him just a minute two or three times and he just keeps on. I stop what I am doing and see what he wants, when I figure out what he wants I give him something to do he wil leave me alone. I work from home, I manage my husbands Landscaping business, so it can get on my nerves when I am trying to take care of business. This three year old that she locked up was born prematurely. My four year old was born prematurely also, he is smarter than any four year old I have met. He has a photographic memory, he can remember a place or a name after hearing it just once. My three year old is the one who likes to torture me, he takes off his clothes as soon as he comes home from being out. He will go into my nieces room and take his clothes off, put on one of her bras and her bathing suit that looks like a dress. He prefers to run around the house in just his underwear.

It does annoy me greatly when I get him dressed and in five minutes he’s in just his skivvies again. I sometimes think about super gluing his clothes onto him and just hosing him and the clothes off every night. I haven’t done that, yet. Here he is right now, his shirt is MIA. I asked him what happened to his shirt and he said it fell off. Sure it did. I told him to put it back on, will he do it? No! He has a very bad habit of not listening, I have noticed that some children miss out on the terrible 2’s, he’s starting the terrible 3’s. My four year old went through the terrible 3’s and is still dealing with the terrible 4’s.