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Does anyone want to play "difficult child mystery"?
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<blockquote data-quote="zba189" data-source="post: 386177"><p>Our usual plan is a chore for the misdeed and a talk about what he is angry or nervous or frustrated or well you get the point about. Right now he is kind of on an emotional vomit mode, so we don't have to press to hard to get him to talk. This morning I got, "I'm nervous about going to school today because I'm worried that I'm going to have to learn something new that I won't be good at" when I asked him why he was stomping down the hall. Yesterday I got, "I don't want to go to church because I think that I should be able to have fun all the time" when I asked him why he tipped over his drinking glass. He's pretty good at being at least somewhat honest about how he is feeling which I think is in part because we are making a huge deal out the fact that he is telling us how he is feeling. He gets a ton of praise for addressing his emotions and he glows in the praises. We are still trying to build trust with him since he trashed my house this summer. Things this summer started the same way, a few minor things here and there until we had full on crisis mode. I'm trying to stay one step ahead of him right now which isn't always possible but in this case necessary.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="zba189, post: 386177"] Our usual plan is a chore for the misdeed and a talk about what he is angry or nervous or frustrated or well you get the point about. Right now he is kind of on an emotional vomit mode, so we don't have to press to hard to get him to talk. This morning I got, "I'm nervous about going to school today because I'm worried that I'm going to have to learn something new that I won't be good at" when I asked him why he was stomping down the hall. Yesterday I got, "I don't want to go to church because I think that I should be able to have fun all the time" when I asked him why he tipped over his drinking glass. He's pretty good at being at least somewhat honest about how he is feeling which I think is in part because we are making a huge deal out the fact that he is telling us how he is feeling. He gets a ton of praise for addressing his emotions and he glows in the praises. We are still trying to build trust with him since he trashed my house this summer. Things this summer started the same way, a few minor things here and there until we had full on crisis mode. I'm trying to stay one step ahead of him right now which isn't always possible but in this case necessary. [/QUOTE]
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