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Do you make provisions at home for your difficult child?
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<blockquote data-quote="trinityroyal" data-source="post: 210684" data-attributes="member: 3907"><p>The way I see it, it's my job as difficult child's parent to teach him how to live in the world. Which means, behaving as appropriately as he can, adhering to society's rules and laws as best he can, etc. Where necessary, I make accommodations for him, but I still expect him to follow the rules.</p><p></p><p>For example:</p><p>difficult child has terrible trouble with bathing. He'll forget to do it, or he'll forget a critical step (like putting soap or body wash on the cloth), or whatever. So he needs help to remember what to do. Washing his body is not a choice, it's a requirement. HOW he washes his body...there's a lot of leeway. Bath vs shower. Soap vs. body wash. Cloth vs scrub puff or washing glove...etc. These are all things that I can change to accommodate difficult child's needs while making sure he's behaving appropriately.</p><p></p><p>Like Toto was saying, sometimes all bets are off. The day after a big activity, I sort of expect a meltdown, and schedule a downtime day to allow for difficult child to recover, and to deal with whatever behaviour results.</p><p></p><p>Just ruminating a bit. Hope this all makes sense.</p><p>Trinity</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trinityroyal, post: 210684, member: 3907"] The way I see it, it's my job as difficult child's parent to teach him how to live in the world. Which means, behaving as appropriately as he can, adhering to society's rules and laws as best he can, etc. Where necessary, I make accommodations for him, but I still expect him to follow the rules. For example: difficult child has terrible trouble with bathing. He'll forget to do it, or he'll forget a critical step (like putting soap or body wash on the cloth), or whatever. So he needs help to remember what to do. Washing his body is not a choice, it's a requirement. HOW he washes his body...there's a lot of leeway. Bath vs shower. Soap vs. body wash. Cloth vs scrub puff or washing glove...etc. These are all things that I can change to accommodate difficult child's needs while making sure he's behaving appropriately. Like Toto was saying, sometimes all bets are off. The day after a big activity, I sort of expect a meltdown, and schedule a downtime day to allow for difficult child to recover, and to deal with whatever behaviour results. Just ruminating a bit. Hope this all makes sense. Trinity [/QUOTE]
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