I feel like crap and I’m being very frank about this with the kids. I’m not being my normal walking-around self. So when kids are talking out of turn or sleeping I don’t feel like getting up to smack their desks how I normally do. So instead, I brought in a squirt bottle. It has fantastic range. I have proven that I can get basically every desk in the room.
The kids love it. They laugh when they get hit, but then they knock off their crap. A threat is often enough to get them to stop. I think this is so funny.
I have used spray bottle corrections with my dog.
How funny that they also work with high school students.
It’s amazing the variety of critters that a given correction technique works with, as evidenced by the broad applicability of the techniques in “Don’t Shoot the Dog” (a fine book on behavior modification for critters from scallops to dolphins to dogs and cats to people).
I’ve had to severely curtail my nerf gun usage since moving in with Sergei, a kitten with some mental issues re. firearms. He was shot in the head with a pellet gun in a bad neighborhood in milpitas, and now all it takes it the cocking of a nerf gun to get him to stop what he’s doing and cower or run in fear.
Effective discipline tool, but also somewhat cruel. =/
our cat had the same reaction to the sound of a magazine being rolled up, you didn’t actually have to hit him with it, just rolling it up did that trick
this was also recently used in a TV show
In a recent episode of a new kids TV show called iCarly, the main character sprays the other kids to get them to stop arguing, saying it works on cats to keep them off the couch.
we used a spray bottle on the kids when they were little
but old enough to know right from wrong.
amazingly effective,
but you had to watch
they didn’t make a game out of the punishment.
years ago,
next door to us was a vicious dog
who would run to the 8′ cyclone fence between our properties,
growling and snapping, and try to climb it to get at us.
one day we went out
and the dog ran to the other side of his yard.
i asked my wife if she had seen that.
she smiled, went into the house
and brought out a spray bottle.
“i started out with water
that didn’t work
so i switched to vinegar.”
we only used water on the kids….
I was thinking this was how one trained cats.
only if you want them to kill you in your sleep!
Funny, but I haven’t had any problem with that so far.
Nor has anyone else I’ve known who used it.
sometimes they wait 40 or 50 years before they take action.