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Hot Sauce and Ice Cold Showers as Punishment?????
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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 454154" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Used to snap them out of an altered state is NOT using it as punishment. It is totally different. It is hard to describe the way Wiz was when we did that, but it was sort of a cross between hysteria and a psychotic state - and he was incredibly violent during it. I was bruised and bleeding after each time but I NEVER hit him or hurt him - I just needed to sort of snap him out of it because just waiting and trying to calm him made no impressions. He seemed incredibly terrified when he was in that state - and the cold water shocked him out of it. I never would have thought of it but after me describing it the pediatrician suggested it, knowing we already had appts booked with specialists and were trying to survive until they could help more.</p><p></p><p>I have an aunt who used to throw her son into a cold shower when he was misbehaving. Not freezing, just household cold. She would not tell this child no - not ever, and nothing he did was really 'wrong' in her eyes unless he specifically did something she told him not to. But if he got upset and was crying about something he couldn't have she put him in the shower. Every parent who knew about it warned her not to. And she did reap the logical consequences of that action - he flat out refused to bath or even let a wet washcloth come near him for about six months. And he refused to go into the pool that summer. As she managed the pool for twenty yrs before she had kids and was still teaching swim lessons, having a child who threw a tantrum every time you got him near the pool was NOT easy to handle. What made her esp upset is that NO ONE gave her ANY sympathy about it because she caused it. He did get over it by the end of the summer and already swam like a fish so it didn't stunt him in any way. But cold showers as punishment are just stupid unless it is a consequence for either dawdling while the hot water runs out or refusing to wash yourself while you have hot water.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 454154, member: 1233"] Used to snap them out of an altered state is NOT using it as punishment. It is totally different. It is hard to describe the way Wiz was when we did that, but it was sort of a cross between hysteria and a psychotic state - and he was incredibly violent during it. I was bruised and bleeding after each time but I NEVER hit him or hurt him - I just needed to sort of snap him out of it because just waiting and trying to calm him made no impressions. He seemed incredibly terrified when he was in that state - and the cold water shocked him out of it. I never would have thought of it but after me describing it the pediatrician suggested it, knowing we already had appts booked with specialists and were trying to survive until they could help more. I have an aunt who used to throw her son into a cold shower when he was misbehaving. Not freezing, just household cold. She would not tell this child no - not ever, and nothing he did was really 'wrong' in her eyes unless he specifically did something she told him not to. But if he got upset and was crying about something he couldn't have she put him in the shower. Every parent who knew about it warned her not to. And she did reap the logical consequences of that action - he flat out refused to bath or even let a wet washcloth come near him for about six months. And he refused to go into the pool that summer. As she managed the pool for twenty yrs before she had kids and was still teaching swim lessons, having a child who threw a tantrum every time you got him near the pool was NOT easy to handle. What made her esp upset is that NO ONE gave her ANY sympathy about it because she caused it. He did get over it by the end of the summer and already swam like a fish so it didn't stunt him in any way. But cold showers as punishment are just stupid unless it is a consequence for either dawdling while the hot water runs out or refusing to wash yourself while you have hot water. [/QUOTE]
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