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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 444185" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>One other thought. How do you get a kid to stop doing something? make it not fun or shocking. I wanted my kids to stop jumping on the beds. I got a stopwatch or timer and made them jump for two minutes, then upped it by a minute each time after until they HATED jumping on the beds. One of the kids who went to daycare with the kids eons ago was a spitter. Each time he spit the director gave him a dixie cup with a line drawn on it partway up and he couldn't play until he had filled it with spit up to that line. Mom and Dad spent four YEARS trying to stop it and Mrs. S stopped it in a week.</p><p></p><p>So how do you get him to stop cussing? Get a voice recorder and an area with NO ONE around - clean out the bottom of a closet if needed or put him in his room. Stay close so you can see that he is not doing anything else and make him cuss for two min. Then three, then four, - each time he gets verbally abusive adds one minute to his time and he has to cuss that long, nonstop, into the recorder until he does not want to cuss again. They thought I was CRAZY at the psychiatric hospital my difficult child spent 4 months in (except one nurse who thought it was brilliant and hilarious) until a therapist started trying it. It is easy to say a few cuss words and shock people. Or jump on a bed, or spit, or stomp your foot. It is HARD to do it for a minute or six or twelve. Cussing was tough with Wiz, we got up to seventeen minutes before it worked, but each time he had to stay in one area for as long as it took for him to do that many minutes non-stop. To this day he does NOT cuss at or around me, lol. The staff at the psychiatric hospital (more of an Residential Treatment Center (RTC)) was amazed because it worked with every single child as long as they had the patience to stick with it. Some of these kids had been there with these habits for years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 444185, member: 1233"] One other thought. How do you get a kid to stop doing something? make it not fun or shocking. I wanted my kids to stop jumping on the beds. I got a stopwatch or timer and made them jump for two minutes, then upped it by a minute each time after until they HATED jumping on the beds. One of the kids who went to daycare with the kids eons ago was a spitter. Each time he spit the director gave him a dixie cup with a line drawn on it partway up and he couldn't play until he had filled it with spit up to that line. Mom and Dad spent four YEARS trying to stop it and Mrs. S stopped it in a week. So how do you get him to stop cussing? Get a voice recorder and an area with NO ONE around - clean out the bottom of a closet if needed or put him in his room. Stay close so you can see that he is not doing anything else and make him cuss for two min. Then three, then four, - each time he gets verbally abusive adds one minute to his time and he has to cuss that long, nonstop, into the recorder until he does not want to cuss again. They thought I was CRAZY at the psychiatric hospital my difficult child spent 4 months in (except one nurse who thought it was brilliant and hilarious) until a therapist started trying it. It is easy to say a few cuss words and shock people. Or jump on a bed, or spit, or stomp your foot. It is HARD to do it for a minute or six or twelve. Cussing was tough with Wiz, we got up to seventeen minutes before it worked, but each time he had to stay in one area for as long as it took for him to do that many minutes non-stop. To this day he does NOT cuss at or around me, lol. The staff at the psychiatric hospital (more of an Residential Treatment Center (RTC)) was amazed because it worked with every single child as long as they had the patience to stick with it. Some of these kids had been there with these habits for years. [/QUOTE]
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