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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 522257" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>Not coming from the same background, but do have a teenaged male difficult child, and... for us, the key to any of us surviving summer holidays is... projects. difficult child-interest projects (ours is a hands-on guy)... summer job to pay for projects, travel to go get more stuff for projects... a garage and back yard crammed full of projects... But it means he is never bored. If he gets roadblocked on project A, there's something to work on for project B. If the weather won't let him do those two because they are outside, he's got project C that can be done in the garage, or project D that can be done in the house... It takes us about 6 months of planning and aquiring (we're in that phase now), to be ready for two months of summer. But it's worth it.</p><p></p><p>Boredom is the biggest enemy of a difficult child.</p><p>Stupid fun is almost as bad as boredom.</p><p>Happily productive = out of trouble (usually).</p><p></p><p>(IF you can get them to the point of happily productive, that is...)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 522257, member: 11791"] Not coming from the same background, but do have a teenaged male difficult child, and... for us, the key to any of us surviving summer holidays is... projects. difficult child-interest projects (ours is a hands-on guy)... summer job to pay for projects, travel to go get more stuff for projects... a garage and back yard crammed full of projects... But it means he is never bored. If he gets roadblocked on project A, there's something to work on for project B. If the weather won't let him do those two because they are outside, he's got project C that can be done in the garage, or project D that can be done in the house... It takes us about 6 months of planning and aquiring (we're in that phase now), to be ready for two months of summer. But it's worth it. Boredom is the biggest enemy of a difficult child. Stupid fun is almost as bad as boredom. Happily productive = out of trouble (usually). (IF you can get them to the point of happily productive, that is...) [/QUOTE]
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