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<blockquote data-quote="LittleDudesMom" data-source="post: 619578" data-attributes="member: 805"><p><span style="color: #0000b3"><span style="font-size: 18px">Both my easy child and difficult child have/had phone and computer rules. When easy child was in middle and high, the laptop and the phone were placed on the hall dresser Sunday through Thursday nights - 10 for the phone and 11 for the computer (as she got older and did her homework late at night in her room). My difficult child puts his phone and tablet on the dresser by 10 and has his old </span><span style="font-size: 15px">iPod</span><span style="font-size: 18px"> which he falls asleep to. If they wouldn't follow those rules, they wouldn't have the devises. I paid for them and I could/can take them away. Period.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000b3"><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000b3"><span style="font-size: 18px">I don't necessarily agree with MWM in regards to behavioral therapy or rewards. Both have worked well with my son and both were started when he was very young. Rewards proved a huge deal for him because of the self confidence builder at a time when he was discovering himself and therapy, often and intense, brought his issues into the light where they could be studied and worked out.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000b3"><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000b3"><span style="font-size: 18px">If your son wants to feel like and adult and make his own choices, let him experiment first within the safety cocoon of your home. Take away everything electronic that has a monthly bill/wireless fee, etc., that you have paid for. Let him know he needs to work to buy his own possessions if he's an adult and he has to pay his own bills, buy his own food, arrange his own transportation, do his own laundry, buy his own clothes</span><span style="font-size: 15px">……</span><span style="font-size: 18px">At 14 he's still a kid who is talking big. He has no idea</span><span style="font-size: 15px">…</span><span style="font-size: 18px">.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LittleDudesMom, post: 619578, member: 805"] [COLOR=#0000b3][SIZE=5]Both my easy child and difficult child have/had phone and computer rules. When easy child was in middle and high, the laptop and the phone were placed on the hall dresser Sunday through Thursday nights - 10 for the phone and 11 for the computer (as she got older and did her homework late at night in her room). My difficult child puts his phone and tablet on the dresser by 10 and has his old [/SIZE][SIZE=4]iPod[/SIZE][SIZE=5] which he falls asleep to. If they wouldn't follow those rules, they wouldn't have the devises. I paid for them and I could/can take them away. Period. I don't necessarily agree with MWM in regards to behavioral therapy or rewards. Both have worked well with my son and both were started when he was very young. Rewards proved a huge deal for him because of the self confidence builder at a time when he was discovering himself and therapy, often and intense, brought his issues into the light where they could be studied and worked out. If your son wants to feel like and adult and make his own choices, let him experiment first within the safety cocoon of your home. Take away everything electronic that has a monthly bill/wireless fee, etc., that you have paid for. Let him know he needs to work to buy his own possessions if he's an adult and he has to pay his own bills, buy his own food, arrange his own transportation, do his own laundry, buy his own clothes[/SIZE][SIZE=4]……[/SIZE][SIZE=5]At 14 he's still a kid who is talking big. He has no idea[/SIZE][SIZE=4]…[/SIZE][SIZE=5].[/SIZE][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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