Why Do Children Never Listen?

Well I don’t know about everyone else but I do know that my children never listen to me. No matter what I do I spanked, sent to corner, time outs, sent to bed early, sat down and talked too. But it doesn’t change anything. For example I talk on my cell phone outside because it is cheap and I do not get any bars in my house. It was late and I wanted my son whom is four to lie down, and he kept coming back outside. Well I wouldn’t have minded it so much if he had some bug stuff on. See my son is allergic to mosquito bites he swells up and turns red and itches like crazy. So in less then five minuets he had three bites on him and was swelling up. And he got mad at me for it. So I got off the phone went in and gave him medicine and some cream for the itch. After that it took me an hour to get him to lie down. So the next day he didn’t want to play outside because of the bugs, so I told him if he had had the bug stuff on he would have been fine. But my son doesn’t thin the stuff works because I had rubbed some on him the other day so he thinks it should still work today. So I am trying to make my son understand that it wore off. In other words he thinks he should stay in the house for the rest of his life.

Now my daughter is three and she talks but I can’t understand her only rare occasions. She likes to take her hands and hit the wall. Well when she does this she comes to me and wants me to kiss her hands and love on her like it was an accident. She did this like five times and then I told her to stop it. So obviously that destroyed her and she collapsed to the floor and cried. Two words “stop it” and her world fell apart. I didn’t even say it in that parent stern voice. So I picked her up and held her for awhile and then she was fine. About a half an hour later she was back to smacking the wall.