7 Answers

Slap her across  the face a time or two. Some states still allow parents to be parents. 

Colleen

Dr Spock was a quack. He destroyed proper parenting.

Colleen

A mere slap that does not knock her to the ground is not violence. I know violence, I lived it. Violence and a slap does not equate. I have never abused a person in my life yet I grew up with a father who beat the living crap out of his kids. Do not fall for the simplistic rhetoric that does not answer for everyone. Bleeding hearts do this world no favors.

I was mocking a teacher in first grade and she walked over to me and grabbed my cheeks between her thumb and pointer finger; she squeezed them for about 30 seconds and so hard that it cut the inside of my cheeks and caused them to bleed. My mouth was sore several days after. I guess I was taught a lesson because I never mocked that fat, ugly, biatch again. LOL

country bumpkin

Oh My! Yikes!

Let them sleep on the porch over night . I don't envy your position be a tough call . Violence is not the answer . All I can say is I would be in very big trouble . Boy am I so glad I have no small kids,I see the little monsters on the city bus all the time with their foul mouths . Pray for guidance and patience then when no one is looking rattle their cage but good .

Colleen

Do you consider a simple slap on the face violence? I'm not saying knock the kid to the ground with the slap. Sometimes a simple slap holds enough shock value to let them know they've crossed the line of appropriate behavior. There's nothing wrong with that when mere words have not stopped them from bad behavior. It shocks them back into reality that the make believe world they live in (and all kids exist in make believe worlds of their own creation) that causes them to act out will not protect them from reality.

Colleen

As you know, my father beat the heck out of his kids too. A slap is not a beating.

Iknow it is unlawful, but a little corporal punisment will go a long way.

Kill them with kindness.

Like Zorro says do that. Your child may be needing attention or want attention. Try asking he/she to explain why they are asking or saying in as much detail as they can sit with them and listen, perhaps the child needs, wants to be heard or even perhaps left out?? Having to explain this may help and reduce this. There is probably a reason or perhaps not it may be you who thinks this and the child is completely unaware.

Colleen

The child is playing her mother and getting away with it and this is the best you can do? Just keep feeding the child's nastiness by coddling and "understanding" rather than teaching her to just shut up and stop her mouthiness? This is why we have so many troubled kids today. They are not getting proper guidance, just hand and "understanding". Then they become adults and the whole world gets to put up with their crap and mouthiness.

Colleen

I've seen were you come from dopey in many discussions here. Sorry but you are the type of person my sister listened to for years and her son is ruined because of it. Thanks for the crappy advice because your voice is the same as the voices she listened to. She was told to hand hold and coddle and understand his actions. He did not respond to the talking, the understanding the taking away of privileges. When he came here to live with me for a summer, he responded to the slap across the face I gave him when he mouthed off at me and called me a b!tch. He never did it again. A 9 year old is incapable of analyzing her feelings and emotions so she can't just "talk about them" that's why a parent is a parent. A parent draws the line to where the mouthiness is not allowed. They can listen when she is capable of being able to express herself without the nasty drama. She is not going to just figure this out on her own and know when she needs to stop being mouthy. It's the parents job to stop her mouth. To shut it when it is being disrespectful and mouthy.

My mom used the bar of soap to wash out my dirty mouth and it stayed clean (at least around her) till this very day. Soap is a very memorable way of ridding a bad mouth kid of a dirty mouth, just make sure they know not to swallow. Lol. Good luck, if you don't fix the problem early it will only get worse later. Spare the rod and spoil the child, you will only be allowing your child to develop into a rude mouth brat if you do nothing.