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<blockquote data-quote="TerryJ2" data-source="post: 372829" data-attributes="member: 3419"><p>My difficult child did that for awhile, and now either he stuffs it or it isn't as bad.</p><p>But when it was very bad, after I had tried every explanation and comforting phrase in the world, I just gave up and told him I'd had it, and I was going to charge him X amt of $ the next time he said something like that. (Everybody hates me, etc.) It worked!</p><p>Now that he's 13, I can ask him and occasionally get a real answer (he still shrugs his shoulders and says "I don't know" a lot) but when he's lucid and cooperative, he'll tell me he didn't really believe that, it was just that he was in a bad mood.</p><p>I have explained what "catastrophizing" means and occasionally have to re-explain it. I have to be careful to still validate his feelings. Sometimes when one person stares at you, it FEELS like the whole world is staring at you. So that's what we talk about.</p><p>Best of luck!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TerryJ2, post: 372829, member: 3419"] My difficult child did that for awhile, and now either he stuffs it or it isn't as bad. But when it was very bad, after I had tried every explanation and comforting phrase in the world, I just gave up and told him I'd had it, and I was going to charge him X amt of $ the next time he said something like that. (Everybody hates me, etc.) It worked! Now that he's 13, I can ask him and occasionally get a real answer (he still shrugs his shoulders and says "I don't know" a lot) but when he's lucid and cooperative, he'll tell me he didn't really believe that, it was just that he was in a bad mood. I have explained what "catastrophizing" means and occasionally have to re-explain it. I have to be careful to still validate his feelings. Sometimes when one person stares at you, it FEELS like the whole world is staring at you. So that's what we talk about. Best of luck! [/QUOTE]
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