Absolutely agree! And when I read this post, I immediately thought of my 2 y/o. Can’t wait to try this, because I think he’s the type that this would work on.
Wow. That is brilliant.
You are clearly a psychopath and your daughter will need a lifetime of therapy as a result of this abusive mind game. For your information, psychological abuse is just as damaging as physical abuse so you may as well be beating her. Someone should report you to CPS so they can remove your children and place them in foster care immediately. Although, I doubt she will EVER recover from the cruel psychological damage you have already inflicted.
And the ASPCA should also be notified so you can NEVER again be allowed to have a stuffed animal as you seem to get off on abusing them.
Ok, seriously, there was just way too much agreement in this thread, so I had to mix it up a little. I used this very tactic on my kids when they were younger and it worked like a charm.
Now I just picture a whole bunch of parents peeking out at the corner of their eyes towards the stuffed animals, just waiting…
“One false move or mistake, and the Teddy Bear gets it!”
And if you punish them both, you’re introducing her to the Prisoner’s Dilemma early in life!
When my daughter (13 months) throws food on the floor, the “consequence” is having to stay in her high chair while I clean it up. Some day she’ll be old enough to understand the connection. In the mean time, it makes me feel better.
I think it’s HILARIOUS. And awesome.
As a child-free only child, I’ve always wondered what a parent did if the child wouldn’t stay in time-out. Great idea!
Genius!!
… and common enough to yield over a thousand Google Image results.
Sounds like it worked to me. 
Slim’s current “thing” is his Peas In a Pod squinkie (which resembles a booger at this point because he’s rubbed all the paint off it) and a quarter. He used to insist on sleeping with them smashed in his fist at night but at some point he’d drop them, wake up, realize he’d dropped them and we’d all have to look for the damn things. At like 2 am. So…we solved that problem by finding a small pouch with a velcro flap. Now he has to put the quarter and the squinkie “to bed” and he can hold onto the “bed” while he sleeps.
Haven’t lost the darn pouch in his sleep yet. 