disciplining a toddler

We have no idea what we are doing when it comes to this subject, but we are trying our best. I've basically taken the approach if it is dangerous or yucky (i.e playing in the garbage) it is non-negotiable and she cannot do it. But otherwise, I probably let her get away with quite a bit. We've put her in a few timeouts (30 secs - 1 minute) when she's been naughty. Her main offense is throwing her food on the floor. It is so hard for me NOT to laugh when she does something though. The other day I scolded her for throwing her food on the floor and she stuck her lower lip out so far I just about spit out my food!

The reason I mention this is because the other day we'd had enough of her taking out all the cookbooks from their shelf. So, we decided the cookbooks were going to be put away and we might as well store her books there. Within minutes she had her books out of there and crawled right in to the shelf.



Then, since her pile of books were close to the stairs, she got the idea to throw them down the stairs. I taped her doing it and then shut of the camera so we could get her to stop it.