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<blockquote data-quote="'Chelle" data-source="post: 158553" data-attributes="member: 1161"><p>I too was going to suggest maybe having him decide the night before what breakfast was going to be. If you sit down with him and explain why you want him to eat the healthy stuff first (for his healthy growth and brain) and then give him a list of choices to pick from the night before and tell him there's no changing it the next day amid the morning rush. You could make the list groups - ie has to pick ONE from a list of cereals, then a list of drinks, then a fruit choice, and an extra like cookies etc. If he wanted 2 drinks you could let him pick a juice instead of a fruit plus milk. It may give him some sense of it's under his control and he won't have anything to argue over. You could also set out what would happen should he still start arguments over his own choices, such as lost Nintendo time. I know time-outs may work for my easy child but never worked with my difficult child - he didn't care and would rage for over an hour in his room. He had to lose something he did care about such as TV time or game time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="'Chelle, post: 158553, member: 1161"] I too was going to suggest maybe having him decide the night before what breakfast was going to be. If you sit down with him and explain why you want him to eat the healthy stuff first (for his healthy growth and brain) and then give him a list of choices to pick from the night before and tell him there's no changing it the next day amid the morning rush. You could make the list groups - ie has to pick ONE from a list of cereals, then a list of drinks, then a fruit choice, and an extra like cookies etc. If he wanted 2 drinks you could let him pick a juice instead of a fruit plus milk. It may give him some sense of it's under his control and he won't have anything to argue over. You could also set out what would happen should he still start arguments over his own choices, such as lost Nintendo time. I know time-outs may work for my easy child but never worked with my difficult child - he didn't care and would rage for over an hour in his room. He had to lose something he did care about such as TV time or game time. [/QUOTE]
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