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My daughter hits me, throws things at me, and breaks my stuff
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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 677228" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>Sometimes the apparent "trigger" isn't actually the major problem - it just happens to be the proverbial straw that broke the camels back - just one too many minor triggers adding up until things explode.</p><p> </p><p>We had to <em>majorly</em> simplify our life. Absolutely rigid routine. Remove the unknowns and uncertainties at home (you can't do that for school). Remove activities, change eating patterns, solid bedtime routines. When we did all of that and had been doing it for a while, it got to the place where the "triggers" always happened right after school. Because everything about school was a trigger, and it added up real fast. They kids held themselves together at school, and exploded at home.</p><p> </p><p>If the problems seemed to start about age 9 - that would be grade 4. And that is the year that the focus of school changes majorly - from learning basic skills, to having to use those skills in "automatic" mode. They have to listen and take notes at the same time, read and understand and interpret what they read, use arithmetic to learn higher level math concepts, and so on. It's a major change - and if the student has NOT developed strong skills in the first three grades, they really go off the rails in grade 4.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 677228, member: 11791"] Sometimes the apparent "trigger" isn't actually the major problem - it just happens to be the proverbial straw that broke the camels back - just one too many minor triggers adding up until things explode. We had to [I]majorly[/I] simplify our life. Absolutely rigid routine. Remove the unknowns and uncertainties at home (you can't do that for school). Remove activities, change eating patterns, solid bedtime routines. When we did all of that and had been doing it for a while, it got to the place where the "triggers" always happened right after school. Because everything about school was a trigger, and it added up real fast. They kids held themselves together at school, and exploded at home. If the problems seemed to start about age 9 - that would be grade 4. And that is the year that the focus of school changes majorly - from learning basic skills, to having to use those skills in "automatic" mode. They have to listen and take notes at the same time, read and understand and interpret what they read, use arithmetic to learn higher level math concepts, and so on. It's a major change - and if the student has NOT developed strong skills in the first three grades, they really go off the rails in grade 4. [/QUOTE]
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