What does it take for kids to learn?

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Originally Posted by who_cares973

from what ive seen being in the middle is the cause of her lack of listening/respect.

oh i see what madmatt is doing

This is somewhat true, apparently she's like a wild animal at her dads house. And for all of you saying she should get food when she behaves nicely, can you consider a different reward? She's almost obese, therefor she doesn't need anymore food, but she always begs, it's a habit that she has to learn to get over.

And I don't think she needs parenting classes, she does the usual spanking. When I was watching her for about 5 minutes today, she hit me purposely and I specifically said that you don't hit people, and that it's not nice. My sister overheard me, and gave her a good ol' spank to the ass. But she still doesn't learn, it's like it comes in through one ear and out the other.

I think another problem might be that at her dads house, they speak some spanish there, which could become a problem, she could be mixing up words. She has speaking issues, but she is in speech class. It's almost like she does everything bad on purpose, and spanking really isn't enough for her to learn her lesson.