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<blockquote data-quote="smallworld" data-source="post: 172170" data-attributes="member: 2423"><p>First, read The Explosive Child. You'll understand your difficult children better and you'll learn some valuable parenting tools (collaborative problem solving and picking your battles).</p><p> </p><p>Second, yelling doesn't work, for difficult children and PCs alike.</p><p> </p><p>Third, when he asks to bring sports equipment that isn't appropriate to the situation, help him find something that is appropriate to bring (ie, a gameboy, a book, a deck of cards, a small board game, etc). Anytime my kids become obsessed or fixated on doing something, it is usually their anxiety speaking. In this situation, I imagine he was anxious about being bored before the fireworks started and he wanted to ensure he had something to do.</p><p> </p><p>Fourth, I wouldn't feel comfortable leaving my son up a tree in the dark, but that's just me. </p><p> </p><p>Bolting is your difficult child's maladaptive way of coping. He needs parents to help him learn new ways of coping by working with him rather than against him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smallworld, post: 172170, member: 2423"] First, read The Explosive Child. You'll understand your difficult children better and you'll learn some valuable parenting tools (collaborative problem solving and picking your battles). Second, yelling doesn't work, for difficult children and PCs alike. Third, when he asks to bring sports equipment that isn't appropriate to the situation, help him find something that is appropriate to bring (ie, a gameboy, a book, a deck of cards, a small board game, etc). Anytime my kids become obsessed or fixated on doing something, it is usually their anxiety speaking. In this situation, I imagine he was anxious about being bored before the fireworks started and he wanted to ensure he had something to do. Fourth, I wouldn't feel comfortable leaving my son up a tree in the dark, but that's just me. Bolting is your difficult child's maladaptive way of coping. He needs parents to help him learn new ways of coping by working with him rather than against him. [/QUOTE]
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