I was just going to look for this thread today. My son is currently on a discipline measure called "tomato staking". It's a gentle discipline "time in" where instead of being sent to solitary time-out he is tethered to me. If I go to the other room for coffee and back he follows me. I'm assuming it's a reference to the book "raising Godly tomatoes", which I am not interested in reading material that contains religion at all. But browsing the forums and putting 2 + 2 togeather I can assume that's the book the phrase came from.
This thread's op dealt specifically with school discipline so I hope I'm not straying too far OT by bringing up home discipline issues. I guess I'll start a new thread and reference this one.
http://giftedissues.davidsongifted....orming_the_Difficult_Chi.html#Post133553 My thing now is jealousy. My daughter gets jealous of my attention to her brother and interrupts any way possible. My son has several times over the last two days made my daughter cry if I go to the other room. I told him, "I don't know what you're doing but it's going to stop.". Now he's on "tomato staking" for a day or two he gets to go wherever I go.
My husband hurt my feelings. I told him what happened and while he admires the solution he gave me the cliched line "you need to give them both equal attention". My kids get plenty of attention and it's not something I'm doing wrong they're just being normal kids. This wouldn't be an issue if they were in daycare.
