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<blockquote data-quote="nvts" data-source="post: 120327" data-attributes="member: 3814"><p>Hi! Have you taken a look at "The Explosive Child" by Ross Greene? It can give you a little insight as to how things "appear" to her. It's very "user-friendly" and not full of techno-speak. It really has some funny stuff when it comes to "parallels" in your life!</p><p> </p><p>We had the whole homework thing going on here for years. What I started doing was giving about 15-20 mins. to "decompress" when they got home from school. All 3 travel min. an hour each way to school, so by the time they get home in the pm, it's about 4:15 and we're JUST STARTING HOMEWORK! </p><p> </p><p>If it's nice, we shoot some hoop in the driveway for about 10 mins., go in quick snack (milk & a cookie, apple "dippers", sometimes I'll be motivated and make banana choc.chip mini muffins) and we go over the "stuff in the dreaded backpacks" moooooohahaha! (you DON'T want to hear the story about the "forgotten" banana - the little buggers were in stitches!). But basically, we "disarm" the beast before it got out of hand. We instituted "the kindness chart" and if they do h-work without a problem, the get a sticker on the chart. Each sticker is worth 5 mins of computer time. The best part of THAT chart is that if they help each other, they actually get to award stickers for each other. And before you ask - of COURSE it was taken advantage of at first - but after the 1st week or so it lost the notoriety and they started getting a little more selective about what they'd reward for.</p><p> </p><p>Welcome to the group!</p><p> </p><p>Beth</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nvts, post: 120327, member: 3814"] Hi! Have you taken a look at "The Explosive Child" by Ross Greene? It can give you a little insight as to how things "appear" to her. It's very "user-friendly" and not full of techno-speak. It really has some funny stuff when it comes to "parallels" in your life! We had the whole homework thing going on here for years. What I started doing was giving about 15-20 mins. to "decompress" when they got home from school. All 3 travel min. an hour each way to school, so by the time they get home in the pm, it's about 4:15 and we're JUST STARTING HOMEWORK! If it's nice, we shoot some hoop in the driveway for about 10 mins., go in quick snack (milk & a cookie, apple "dippers", sometimes I'll be motivated and make banana choc.chip mini muffins) and we go over the "stuff in the dreaded backpacks" moooooohahaha! (you DON'T want to hear the story about the "forgotten" banana - the little buggers were in stitches!). But basically, we "disarm" the beast before it got out of hand. We instituted "the kindness chart" and if they do h-work without a problem, the get a sticker on the chart. Each sticker is worth 5 mins of computer time. The best part of THAT chart is that if they help each other, they actually get to award stickers for each other. And before you ask - of COURSE it was taken advantage of at first - but after the 1st week or so it lost the notoriety and they started getting a little more selective about what they'd reward for. Welcome to the group! Beth [/QUOTE]
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