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I'm new and my daughter's behavior has pushed me into therapy.
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<blockquote data-quote="Joeman" data-source="post: 167161" data-attributes="member: 5231"><p>Hi Munimom,</p><p>I agree totally with the others here that you need to take care of yourself #1. I'm always at my worst when I'm feeling down or frustrated. I too had very similar challenges with my DS at ages 1 & 2. For us, I heard the 'normal 2 year old boy' stuff over and over. I felt like an incompetent parent and I have two older PCs. You are probably in a better position to get help outside of the pediatrician route, like a child psychologist or early intervention to start. Our pediatrician wouldn't even consider further evaluations due to behavior issues until his 3 year old visit. </p><p> </p><p>I recommend reading SOS for Parents. It is an easy read and offers some basic parenting techniques such as praising good behaviors, ignoring some bad behaviors and implementing a 'non emotional' time out. The book helped me sort out things and feel more organized in my discipline approach. One other thing I did was to take a week break from any sort of 'no', 'don't', 'stop' type of commands or yelling or timeouts or anything. Instead, I hovered, watched what he was doing, offered profuse praise for compliance, gentle redirection when needed, etc. I found my blood pressure immediately droppping 20 points. After that, we implemented timeout for one behavior only and went from there, slowly. The behaviorist we worked with told us to shoot for two positive praises for every one correction. We had completely 'depleted our bank account' and DS's negative, defiant behavior was so intense it was all he was about. The more positive we were, the better things were overall. </p><p> </p><p>I hope you get the help you need and things improve for you soon. Take care...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Joeman, post: 167161, member: 5231"] Hi Munimom, I agree totally with the others here that you need to take care of yourself #1. I'm always at my worst when I'm feeling down or frustrated. I too had very similar challenges with my DS at ages 1 & 2. For us, I heard the 'normal 2 year old boy' stuff over and over. I felt like an incompetent parent and I have two older PCs. You are probably in a better position to get help outside of the pediatrician route, like a child psychologist or early intervention to start. Our pediatrician wouldn't even consider further evaluations due to behavior issues until his 3 year old visit. I recommend reading SOS for Parents. It is an easy read and offers some basic parenting techniques such as praising good behaviors, ignoring some bad behaviors and implementing a 'non emotional' time out. The book helped me sort out things and feel more organized in my discipline approach. One other thing I did was to take a week break from any sort of 'no', 'don't', 'stop' type of commands or yelling or timeouts or anything. Instead, I hovered, watched what he was doing, offered profuse praise for compliance, gentle redirection when needed, etc. I found my blood pressure immediately droppping 20 points. After that, we implemented timeout for one behavior only and went from there, slowly. The behaviorist we worked with told us to shoot for two positive praises for every one correction. We had completely 'depleted our bank account' and DS's negative, defiant behavior was so intense it was all he was about. The more positive we were, the better things were overall. I hope you get the help you need and things improve for you soon. Take care... [/QUOTE]
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