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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 423704" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Personally I don't think ODD is a helpful label at all. I used to think my son "had" it - now I think he is just difficult, lol. As someone here commented, labelling your child oppositional and defiant instantly makes one feel angry with and negative about him/her... It is also not set in stone. Finding the right strategy and discipline techniques for your "different" child are vital... and really help unlock doors that previously seem closed. If you saw my son on some occasions you would think "what a model child!" - he does all I ask, puts his supper things away unasked, says "please" and "thank you", goes to bed like a dream, is sweet and funny... Other times he would seem to incarnate opposition and defiance... none of it is immutable, fixed and hopeless, whatever the doctors may say... Keep reading - and reading! And reflecting, and seeing what works with your child, what ways he can be helped to develop the parts of him that are NOT difficult and oppositional...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 423704, member: 11227"] Personally I don't think ODD is a helpful label at all. I used to think my son "had" it - now I think he is just difficult, lol. As someone here commented, labelling your child oppositional and defiant instantly makes one feel angry with and negative about him/her... It is also not set in stone. Finding the right strategy and discipline techniques for your "different" child are vital... and really help unlock doors that previously seem closed. If you saw my son on some occasions you would think "what a model child!" - he does all I ask, puts his supper things away unasked, says "please" and "thank you", goes to bed like a dream, is sweet and funny... Other times he would seem to incarnate opposition and defiance... none of it is immutable, fixed and hopeless, whatever the doctors may say... Keep reading - and reading! And reflecting, and seeing what works with your child, what ways he can be helped to develop the parts of him that are NOT difficult and oppositional... [/QUOTE]
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