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Power struggles and talking back -- need suggestions?
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<blockquote data-quote="laurensmyprincess" data-source="post: 171474" data-attributes="member: 2898"><p>Thank you midwestmom! She is on tegretol, lamictal and gabapentin for her seizures. (I know it's a boatload). We don't know where the medications, the epilepsy and behaviour issues stop and start. It is a huge mesh of tangled puzzle that we will never figure out but we need to manage. We cant stop the medications because that will cause seizures, seizures can cause lots of behavioural/emotional issues and so the domino effect goes. </p><p></p><p>We are seeing a child psychiatrist on July 24th who works with the neurology team at our childrens hospital. In the meantime, I am beginning to read (again) Ross Greene's book. I am wondering though, how the strategies work when there is a neurophysiolgical reason for the behaviours. I guess it must -- like I said, my hospital recommends this approach.</p><p></p><p>Any immediate advice on the power struggles? It happened again tonight. We went to the bookstore to pick up The Explosive Child (how ironic). When we were paying, she grabbed my car keys from me. I let her keep them till we got outside, then I asked her very nicely and firmly to give them back, that I needed them to open the car and drive home. Well, very purposely, she put them behind her back and was running away from me. I had to finally grab them out of her hands, which caused her to start crying, make faces at me and tell me that she was sick of going into time outs. I cried all the way home. I need help for her (and us).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="laurensmyprincess, post: 171474, member: 2898"] Thank you midwestmom! She is on tegretol, lamictal and gabapentin for her seizures. (I know it's a boatload). We don't know where the medications, the epilepsy and behaviour issues stop and start. It is a huge mesh of tangled puzzle that we will never figure out but we need to manage. We cant stop the medications because that will cause seizures, seizures can cause lots of behavioural/emotional issues and so the domino effect goes. We are seeing a child psychiatrist on July 24th who works with the neurology team at our childrens hospital. In the meantime, I am beginning to read (again) Ross Greene's book. I am wondering though, how the strategies work when there is a neurophysiolgical reason for the behaviours. I guess it must -- like I said, my hospital recommends this approach. Any immediate advice on the power struggles? It happened again tonight. We went to the bookstore to pick up The Explosive Child (how ironic). When we were paying, she grabbed my car keys from me. I let her keep them till we got outside, then I asked her very nicely and firmly to give them back, that I needed them to open the car and drive home. Well, very purposely, she put them behind her back and was running away from me. I had to finally grab them out of her hands, which caused her to start crying, make faces at me and tell me that she was sick of going into time outs. I cried all the way home. I need help for her (and us). [/QUOTE]
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