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<blockquote data-quote="smallworld" data-source="post: 30251" data-attributes="member: 2423"><p>Terry, I'm sorry for your rough morning.</p><p></p><p>Maybe I'm off base here, but I truly believe consequences should fit the "crime," so to speak. I'm having a hard time understanding why taking stuff out of his room is going to teach him anything about making it to school. It seems to me that it just escalates the situation, and you don't really get what you want, which is to have difficult child in school.</p><p></p><p>Now if he got a headache from staying up late listening to his MP3 player, I can see taking it away at bedtime so it doesn't happen again. That is a logical consequence to what happened this morning.</p><p></p><p>When my difficult child 1 gets headaches in the morning (and it happens with regularity because he has migraines), we just try to ease him into his day so he will go to school. We give him Motrin, let him rest for a few extra minutes, possibly help him a bit more with breakfast and his school stuff than we normally would. The goal is to get him to school so we do what we can to make it happen.</p><p></p><p>Have you read The Explosive Child by Ross Greene? A really helpful book, in my humble opinion.</p><p></p><p>Hope the rest of your day is better.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smallworld, post: 30251, member: 2423"] Terry, I'm sorry for your rough morning. Maybe I'm off base here, but I truly believe consequences should fit the "crime," so to speak. I'm having a hard time understanding why taking stuff out of his room is going to teach him anything about making it to school. It seems to me that it just escalates the situation, and you don't really get what you want, which is to have difficult child in school. Now if he got a headache from staying up late listening to his MP3 player, I can see taking it away at bedtime so it doesn't happen again. That is a logical consequence to what happened this morning. When my difficult child 1 gets headaches in the morning (and it happens with regularity because he has migraines), we just try to ease him into his day so he will go to school. We give him Motrin, let him rest for a few extra minutes, possibly help him a bit more with breakfast and his school stuff than we normally would. The goal is to get him to school so we do what we can to make it happen. Have you read The Explosive Child by Ross Greene? A really helpful book, in my humble opinion. Hope the rest of your day is better. [/QUOTE]
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