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<blockquote data-quote="Shari" data-source="post: 170477" data-attributes="member: 1848"><p>Christy,</p><p>its so hard to know what will set them off and what won't....makes it so hard.</p><p>***</p><p>With my difficult child, before we go into ANY store, we discuss expected behavior and I read to him from a list of everything that we are going to buy - and we don't deviate from the list. His in-home actually started this, and it eventually paid off. It started off by making a trip to the only store we have in my little town, a DG, every day. We had a list, I had one item (I usually aimed for something like soap of shampoo), he had one item (usually gum or something like that). If it wasn't on the list, we didn't buy. Regardless of behavior, we stuck to the list, and lemme tell ya, more than once, I paid for shampoo and gum while packing a screaming difficult child under my arm...</p><p>***</p><p>As he got to accepting the 1 item, we started adding 2 or 3, and eventually more and more, and also started adding trips where I got one thing (written on a list) and he didn't get anything. Eventually, it worked. I still don't take him unless I have to, but when I do, I can buy 10 or 15 items and get him a pack of gum and we're good. If I buy one or two, when its in and out FAST, we don't buy him anything. </p><p>***</p><p>I have no idea if this would help you, but it sure helped my difficult child. Making a point to go to DG every single day was a pain, especially for someone who doesn't like to shop, but hey...it paid off.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shari, post: 170477, member: 1848"] Christy, its so hard to know what will set them off and what won't....makes it so hard. *** With my difficult child, before we go into ANY store, we discuss expected behavior and I read to him from a list of everything that we are going to buy - and we don't deviate from the list. His in-home actually started this, and it eventually paid off. It started off by making a trip to the only store we have in my little town, a DG, every day. We had a list, I had one item (I usually aimed for something like soap of shampoo), he had one item (usually gum or something like that). If it wasn't on the list, we didn't buy. Regardless of behavior, we stuck to the list, and lemme tell ya, more than once, I paid for shampoo and gum while packing a screaming difficult child under my arm... *** As he got to accepting the 1 item, we started adding 2 or 3, and eventually more and more, and also started adding trips where I got one thing (written on a list) and he didn't get anything. Eventually, it worked. I still don't take him unless I have to, but when I do, I can buy 10 or 15 items and get him a pack of gum and we're good. If I buy one or two, when its in and out FAST, we don't buy him anything. *** I have no idea if this would help you, but it sure helped my difficult child. Making a point to go to DG every single day was a pain, especially for someone who doesn't like to shop, but hey...it paid off. [/QUOTE]
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