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<blockquote data-quote="nodramamama" data-source="post: 319807" data-attributes="member: 8374"><p>Well, I think difficult child 2 finally found a way to make us sit up and pay attention with this latest Big Bang. My DP and I went to "livesinthebalance.org" which is the "Explosive Child" guy's new site. We watched the videos and we just cried. difficult child 2 is sooooo overwhelmed and lacking in a variety of "skill sets" and we've been treating him like he "should" be able to cope better.</p><p></p><p>And he can't. And he's a great kid, and now maybe we'll be able to reframe our thinking to this whole "lack of skills paradigm". It's time for us to put the focus on developing some new parenting/mentoring skills instead of trying to get him to do something he can't. It's also a real eye-opener to realize that easy child actually has the same limitations as difficult child 2 - she's fairly rigid, anxious, resistant to change and needs a lot of control over her environment. She just exhibits more adaptive behavior more often.</p><p></p><p>Wow.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nodramamama, post: 319807, member: 8374"] Well, I think difficult child 2 finally found a way to make us sit up and pay attention with this latest Big Bang. My DP and I went to "livesinthebalance.org" which is the "Explosive Child" guy's new site. We watched the videos and we just cried. difficult child 2 is sooooo overwhelmed and lacking in a variety of "skill sets" and we've been treating him like he "should" be able to cope better. And he can't. And he's a great kid, and now maybe we'll be able to reframe our thinking to this whole "lack of skills paradigm". It's time for us to put the focus on developing some new parenting/mentoring skills instead of trying to get him to do something he can't. It's also a real eye-opener to realize that easy child actually has the same limitations as difficult child 2 - she's fairly rigid, anxious, resistant to change and needs a lot of control over her environment. She just exhibits more adaptive behavior more often. Wow. [/QUOTE]
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