She's a teenager. Of course she going to talk. To be honest, pick your battles. Let her take her time walking home. Enjoy the time away from her. Is it...
Our RAD son who is ten is just begining RAD therapy. My question is he has been doing whatever he wants like just going in the kitchen or standing in the...
Ideas: From my experience and readings on Attachment Disorder I have found that I cannot let anything no matter how small go by (at least until there is more...
I would add: we try to reinforce the correct behavior, if the behavior is banging the fork on the table, then we would emphasize "forks are for eating",...
... because he knows how much it drives me nuts. I used to yell and get mad going on tangents about how other kids will start to pick on him and how we dont...
... he needs to ask before he is allowed to do anything so when he just goes to the bathroom and does not ask to what is a natural or logical consequence. I do...
We don't have this problem yet, but how about "hmm, only mouths using clean conversation eat dinner with the family, everything else gets oatmeal (or soup, ...
Dirty looks--give it a funny name and try to see how often you can get him to do it. Make a game of it. I call my son's "frog face" and rate him on how well...
... he will say wa intstead of was or ha instead of have and he smooshes them together so you cant understand. He can speak clearly and normally however he...
... would you do when he edges into a room or does just go in with out permission. What consequence would fit. ... get ... first ... incomprehensible ... it's ...
We have had the same problem! We send our son to his room until he is ready to talk so that we can hear him and understand him. We he is ready, he says...
... Hmm. Well, if he really wants to go into that room so badly, why not let him? Like, twenty times or so? He has to walk from wherever he was supposed to...
I would frame it as a "choice" not a "consequence", the child "chose" to eat oatmeal. I would say not feeding at all would be considered abuse, but having a ...
When we have an issue along these lines, we tell our son he has to walk from room to room holding our hand and he has to ask us to come hold his hand to take ...
Untelligible speach is another matter than swearing, for that one, if he mumbles or whatever, you might say "hmm I'm not understanding you real well, but I...
I would make him stay within your line of vision at all times until he learns to ask. I used a baby leash on my kid when she still refused to comply. It ...
... does not want him to be allowed to isolate himself anymore. He would rather be in his room alone than to be with us. He has to be around us all the time...
... many many many times with gross manners. same food but cold as heck. thank you all so much for the ideas i will definately have fun with some of them. and...
DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY IDEA'S ON HOW TO CONTROL THIS. OUR SON WHO IS 8 DOES NOT SHOW ANY EMOTIONS OR THROW TRANTRUMS HE WILL THROW HIM SELF DOWN WHEN HE IS UPSET...
Might try love&logic, instead of telling him to do something, give him two choices, "do you want to make your bed now or take a bath now". May not be a "fix",...
Sounds like you just need to stick with it. I can't think of any other ideas. I'm glad Dad seems to be on the same page with you at least half the time....
... started. One of the childrens fathers came to our home tonigh and we found out that our son started the punching and it was over a kid stealing another...
If he is hurting himself throwing tantrums, then I would hold him like a baby. You may want to check with your state laws first, but when my daughter did that...