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<blockquote data-quote="LittleDudesMom" data-source="post: 176252" data-attributes="member: 805"><p>Terry,</p><p> </p><p>glad to hear difficult child is having a great time and stepping up to the challenge. You know that our kids usually do better for other folks, in the short run, and the couselors are folks he probably looks up to and doesn't want to dissapoint or look bad in their eyes.</p><p> </p><p>Too bad we don't garner that kind of respect!!!</p><p> </p><p>I remember when difficult child was a little guy being a little frustrated because he learned so differntly from easy child. She could just sit down with me when she was little and learn letters, colors, or shapes, etc., in one sitting with rapt attention! Do I even need to say that I couldn't do that with difficult child?</p><p> </p><p>But, I am a huge believer in finding a kids' passion/motiviation in order to teach them something (something new, a consequence, whatever). difficult child's first word was plane. He loves planes. So I took advantage of that and we would drive out to our airport. We would take a snack, drive up to the top floor of the parking garage, get out and count! We would count the planes as they were taking off, we would count the fed ex planes on the tarmac, we would count the planes coming in, the private jets at the business hanger, etc. That's how I taught difficult child to count. It was like a field trip. You could park in the deck for an hour without paying.</p><p> </p><p>It's also like when difficult child started taking medications. He couldn't swallow a pill. I bribed him for a month before school started with a trip to Toys R Us. Didn't work.......finally, I had a week before the school year started and I needed to get the concerta in there and see how he reacted to it. I told him that he was just going to have to be like Stellaluna (anyone know the book about a baby fruit bat that gets seperated from it's mom and is raised by a mama bird and her babies). You don't have a choice here now bud, just open your mouth and I'll put in back in your throat like the mama bird put the grasshopper in Stellaluna's mouth!! It worked. We did the Stellaluna pill swallow for years!!!!!</p><p> </p><p>You never know what is going to work until you try!!! If one thing worked for all our kids they wouldn't be our difficult children!!!!</p><p> </p><p>Again, glad difficult child is having a great experience. </p><p> </p><p>Sharon</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LittleDudesMom, post: 176252, member: 805"] Terry, glad to hear difficult child is having a great time and stepping up to the challenge. You know that our kids usually do better for other folks, in the short run, and the couselors are folks he probably looks up to and doesn't want to dissapoint or look bad in their eyes. Too bad we don't garner that kind of respect!!! I remember when difficult child was a little guy being a little frustrated because he learned so differntly from easy child. She could just sit down with me when she was little and learn letters, colors, or shapes, etc., in one sitting with rapt attention! Do I even need to say that I couldn't do that with difficult child? But, I am a huge believer in finding a kids' passion/motiviation in order to teach them something (something new, a consequence, whatever). difficult child's first word was plane. He loves planes. So I took advantage of that and we would drive out to our airport. We would take a snack, drive up to the top floor of the parking garage, get out and count! We would count the planes as they were taking off, we would count the fed ex planes on the tarmac, we would count the planes coming in, the private jets at the business hanger, etc. That's how I taught difficult child to count. It was like a field trip. You could park in the deck for an hour without paying. It's also like when difficult child started taking medications. He couldn't swallow a pill. I bribed him for a month before school started with a trip to Toys R Us. Didn't work.......finally, I had a week before the school year started and I needed to get the concerta in there and see how he reacted to it. I told him that he was just going to have to be like Stellaluna (anyone know the book about a baby fruit bat that gets seperated from it's mom and is raised by a mama bird and her babies). You don't have a choice here now bud, just open your mouth and I'll put in back in your throat like the mama bird put the grasshopper in Stellaluna's mouth!! It worked. We did the Stellaluna pill swallow for years!!!!! You never know what is going to work until you try!!! If one thing worked for all our kids they wouldn't be our difficult children!!!! Again, glad difficult child is having a great experience. Sharon [/QUOTE]
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