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<blockquote data-quote="trinityroyal" data-source="post: 325769" data-attributes="member: 3907"><p>Terry, I agree that it would be useful for you to learn some self defense techniques, just so that you can protect yourself and get away from your difficult child if he's manhandling you.</p><p></p><p>I also want to make clear that I'm not advocating getting into a physical confrontation with your difficult child or trying to best him in a fight. I was lucky in that mine worked out my way, but it could have gone so very wrong so very quickly. I just saw the power dynamic starting to go askew and knew that I needed to do something, anything, to cement my position in the family wolf pack at a time when husband had left ALL discipline matters to me and was mollycoddling difficult child.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Terry, I think Janet's suggestion is a good one. My difficult child would get completely lost in TV shows and computer games, and then when he would come back to us, it was like he was coming down from a drug high--paranoia, anger, hostility, violence. We went completely screen free with him for 2 years, and then gradually reintroduced some very limited screen time. Right now the Residential Treatment Center (RTC) lets difficult child have 1 hr of tv per day, 1 hr of video gaming every other day, and 30 min of computer time every other day (on non video gaming days). All are fully supervised by staff, and if difficult child shows any signs of losing himself, they shut down right away and redirect him to another activity.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trinityroyal, post: 325769, member: 3907"] Terry, I agree that it would be useful for you to learn some self defense techniques, just so that you can protect yourself and get away from your difficult child if he's manhandling you. I also want to make clear that I'm not advocating getting into a physical confrontation with your difficult child or trying to best him in a fight. I was lucky in that mine worked out my way, but it could have gone so very wrong so very quickly. I just saw the power dynamic starting to go askew and knew that I needed to do something, anything, to cement my position in the family wolf pack at a time when husband had left ALL discipline matters to me and was mollycoddling difficult child. Terry, I think Janet's suggestion is a good one. My difficult child would get completely lost in TV shows and computer games, and then when he would come back to us, it was like he was coming down from a drug high--paranoia, anger, hostility, violence. We went completely screen free with him for 2 years, and then gradually reintroduced some very limited screen time. Right now the Residential Treatment Center (RTC) lets difficult child have 1 hr of tv per day, 1 hr of video gaming every other day, and 30 min of computer time every other day (on non video gaming days). All are fully supervised by staff, and if difficult child shows any signs of losing himself, they shut down right away and redirect him to another activity. [/QUOTE]
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