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<blockquote data-quote="HopeRemains" data-source="post: 514645" data-attributes="member: 14139"><p>busywend- Thank you for your suggestions. I have/do create schedules for him and post them on the fridge. They announce what time he can go outside, what time snacks and meals are, what time is TV "off" time, etc. These are especially useful in the summer. He's old enough now that he can read the clock, and you can bet that he watches for the minute to turn so that he can go outside and play! He waits for the minute on EVERYTHING. Which is great, because it saves all the constant (EVERY 5 MINUTES) nagging on when this or that is going to happen. I just refer him to the schedule if he starts, and most of the time he is satisfied with this. During the school year, things get more lax, because he's not home all day. He knows exactly what time homework will be started, and does this on his own. But then begins the issue of not wanting to do his homework. For most of the year he has done fine with it, because if he did his homework nicely on Thursday (homework day), I would reward him with a sack lunch on Friday (his request). It worked until a month ago, when he decided he wanted husband to baby him through it and refuses to even write down the first problem. (Very embarrassing to have to email the teacher and explain why his homework wasn't done that night. He asserted to us that he was going to school the next day to tell his teacher that we wouldn't "help" him.) </p><p></p><p>Anyhow, scheduling is one of the most helpful things in my arsenol, and one of the only ones that have maintained through the trial and errors of trying to get his behavior under control.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HopeRemains, post: 514645, member: 14139"] busywend- Thank you for your suggestions. I have/do create schedules for him and post them on the fridge. They announce what time he can go outside, what time snacks and meals are, what time is TV "off" time, etc. These are especially useful in the summer. He's old enough now that he can read the clock, and you can bet that he watches for the minute to turn so that he can go outside and play! He waits for the minute on EVERYTHING. Which is great, because it saves all the constant (EVERY 5 MINUTES) nagging on when this or that is going to happen. I just refer him to the schedule if he starts, and most of the time he is satisfied with this. During the school year, things get more lax, because he's not home all day. He knows exactly what time homework will be started, and does this on his own. But then begins the issue of not wanting to do his homework. For most of the year he has done fine with it, because if he did his homework nicely on Thursday (homework day), I would reward him with a sack lunch on Friday (his request). It worked until a month ago, when he decided he wanted husband to baby him through it and refuses to even write down the first problem. (Very embarrassing to have to email the teacher and explain why his homework wasn't done that night. He asserted to us that he was going to school the next day to tell his teacher that we wouldn't "help" him.) Anyhow, scheduling is one of the most helpful things in my arsenol, and one of the only ones that have maintained through the trial and errors of trying to get his behavior under control. [/QUOTE]
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