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Does anyone else hate this time of the year?
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<blockquote data-quote="nvts" data-source="post: 108327" data-attributes="member: 3814"><p>Our oldest is in day treatment and I think that they're trying to talk the teachers down off the roof!</p><p></p><p>difficult child 1 goes through this every year and we finally put it together last year. His anxiety level goes through the roof as soon as he sees the first hint of Christmas (thank you advertisers for making THAT earlier every year!! There's a special place in h*ll for you! lol).</p><p></p><p>We made sure that this year we started early. It seems like we deflected a lot of the usual stuff by beating him to the punch.</p><p></p><p>What sets him off? What do we do?</p><p></p><p>1. He's convinced that he's been so evil that he's sure to have blown it for Christmas presents. We started "evaluating" early November: Wow! You had a much better year than last and look at the cool stuff you got for Christmas!</p><p></p><p>2. Running around to get stuff done. 1 Hooky day for each child which they could collect after a good stretch of good school behavior. This way I could take them shopping 1 on 1 and then lunch or the zoo or something.</p><p></p><p>3. Nervous about going to papa's for dinner and presents. We'll have dinner home and BRING dessert to papa's house.</p><p></p><p>4. What if one of the others (bro & sis) want to touch his new stuff? One week moratorium on touching ANYONE'S new stuff barring administrative intervention via Mom (no negotiations without me present!).</p><p></p><p>I don't know - it's working so far!</p><p></p><p>Beth</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nvts, post: 108327, member: 3814"] Our oldest is in day treatment and I think that they're trying to talk the teachers down off the roof! difficult child 1 goes through this every year and we finally put it together last year. His anxiety level goes through the roof as soon as he sees the first hint of Christmas (thank you advertisers for making THAT earlier every year!! There's a special place in h*ll for you! lol). We made sure that this year we started early. It seems like we deflected a lot of the usual stuff by beating him to the punch. What sets him off? What do we do? 1. He's convinced that he's been so evil that he's sure to have blown it for Christmas presents. We started "evaluating" early November: Wow! You had a much better year than last and look at the cool stuff you got for Christmas! 2. Running around to get stuff done. 1 Hooky day for each child which they could collect after a good stretch of good school behavior. This way I could take them shopping 1 on 1 and then lunch or the zoo or something. 3. Nervous about going to papa's for dinner and presents. We'll have dinner home and BRING dessert to papa's house. 4. What if one of the others (bro & sis) want to touch his new stuff? One week moratorium on touching ANYONE'S new stuff barring administrative intervention via Mom (no negotiations without me present!). I don't know - it's working so far! Beth [/QUOTE]
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