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Oh hard hard it gets to celebrate easy child while difficult child is breaking down
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<blockquote data-quote="FlipFlops" data-source="post: 283154"><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="color: darkorchid">Why is it that things have to get to a horrible point before anyone does anything significant?! I would like to know more, as much as you are comfortable sharing. When our therapist comes she is only here about an hour or so. When she started working with us there was only a week left of school, and the principal at difficult child's therapeutic school denied us a meeting because she was too busy. With us we are being told to do the same things we have tried before with one exception. When difficult child is getting to the verge of "flipping" out (which can include me getting physically attacked), she says to offer him a cool off time, de-escalating. In the past we would just restrain him. One night I loosely followed him around the house until almost 10:00PM "de-escalating". It was a school night too. Could not get in touch with therapist. husband called twice. I called twice. She talks all the time about taking the power away from him, and says it is a win for us because the goal was to get him in bed. I don't see how it was a win. No one else got to go to bed because I couldn't be sure he would not get physical and act out. I don't know how much more in power he could have been.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="color: #9932cc">What type of advice do they give you? What does she do when she is at your house? Does she work with your difficult child? If so, how...I need reassurance that this isn't a waste of time. husband and I are pretty hopeless at this point. </span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FlipFlops, post: 283154"] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][COLOR=darkorchid]Why is it that things have to get to a horrible point before anyone does anything significant?! I would like to know more, as much as you are comfortable sharing. When our therapist comes she is only here about an hour or so. When she started working with us there was only a week left of school, and the principal at difficult child's therapeutic school denied us a meeting because she was too busy. With us we are being told to do the same things we have tried before with one exception. When difficult child is getting to the verge of "flipping" out (which can include me getting physically attacked), she says to offer him a cool off time, de-escalating. In the past we would just restrain him. One night I loosely followed him around the house until almost 10:00PM "de-escalating". It was a school night too. Could not get in touch with therapist. husband called twice. I called twice. She talks all the time about taking the power away from him, and says it is a win for us because the goal was to get him in bed. I don't see how it was a win. No one else got to go to bed because I couldn't be sure he would not get physical and act out. I don't know how much more in power he could have been.[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][COLOR=#9932cc]What type of advice do they give you? What does she do when she is at your house? Does she work with your difficult child? If so, how...I need reassurance that this isn't a waste of time. husband and I are pretty hopeless at this point. [/COLOR][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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