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Controlling use of gameboy & stopping snacks after dinner/brushing
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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 178990" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>You might already be doing this, but just in case, it helped here to make sure it was clear ahead of time how much time difficult child was going to have playing games before being expected to stop. It helped- for some reason- to say "at 3:00, which is 1/2 hour from now" instead of "you have 30 mins". Then I tried to give him a "time is almost up warning-start winding down" 10 mins ahead of time, then another a few mins ahead of time. I don't know if that helped because maybe he needed longer to switch gears, or maybe it just takes that long to get to a good stopping point in some of these games. anyway- this has helped us. I've also heard some people say that ssetting a timer and keeping it near them where they can see it helps.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 178990, member: 3699"] You might already be doing this, but just in case, it helped here to make sure it was clear ahead of time how much time difficult child was going to have playing games before being expected to stop. It helped- for some reason- to say "at 3:00, which is 1/2 hour from now" instead of "you have 30 mins". Then I tried to give him a "time is almost up warning-start winding down" 10 mins ahead of time, then another a few mins ahead of time. I don't know if that helped because maybe he needed longer to switch gears, or maybe it just takes that long to get to a good stopping point in some of these games. anyway- this has helped us. I've also heard some people say that ssetting a timer and keeping it near them where they can see it helps. [/QUOTE]
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