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<blockquote data-quote="HaoZi" data-source="post: 411100"><p>One of the biggest things that will help is for you and Kat to be on the same page with how the kids are handled. As my in-home counselor told me (I had 6 months of weekly visits to help me handle Kiddo) sometimes you have to think it less like raising a human and more like taming a feral animal. Keep things short - commands, requests, punishments, etc., and simple to understand. </p><p>You may, like many of us, find yourself changing as you read The Explosive Child, because you're already realizing some of what might be going on in their brain, and that pause while you think about that helps you to ACT instead of REACT. In other words, you'll be re-training yourself to stop and think instead of giving a knee-jerk response that escalates the situation.</p><p>If you two disagree on how to handle a situation, don't discuss or argue about it in front of the kids - do it privately out of earshot, calmly, so you get each other's perspective and stay on the same page.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HaoZi, post: 411100"] One of the biggest things that will help is for you and Kat to be on the same page with how the kids are handled. As my in-home counselor told me (I had 6 months of weekly visits to help me handle Kiddo) sometimes you have to think it less like raising a human and more like taming a feral animal. Keep things short - commands, requests, punishments, etc., and simple to understand. You may, like many of us, find yourself changing as you read The Explosive Child, because you're already realizing some of what might be going on in their brain, and that pause while you think about that helps you to ACT instead of REACT. In other words, you'll be re-training yourself to stop and think instead of giving a knee-jerk response that escalates the situation. If you two disagree on how to handle a situation, don't discuss or argue about it in front of the kids - do it privately out of earshot, calmly, so you get each other's perspective and stay on the same page. [/QUOTE]
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