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Question: How Do You Fight that "Knee-Jerk Reaction" to difficult children?
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<blockquote data-quote="HaoZi" data-source="post: 395858"><p>My difficult child is one of a long line of difficult children, myself included. You can trace our family having a problem with authority all the way back to the Trail of Tears (if records could go back further I'm sure there would be more, just a hunch).</p><p>As it is just me and her, and I already have a built-in knee-jerk reaction and very little patience, I find it very hard sometimes not to yell back, not to throw things, not to beat my own head against the wall. I've mellowed some with age, but I can't always reel in that reaction. The only reason I don't put my head through a wall sometimes is that I have enough headaches/migraines thankyouverymuch. Sometimes I can catch myself better than others, and I was almost numb when she came home from the hospital and pretty much handled everything calmly because of that, but that's worn off. </p><p>I have no insurance, no doctor, best I've been able to do was take the advice from someone else here about using half a chlor-tab for anxiety. Does pretty well, too. Takes the edge off pretty good, anyway.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HaoZi, post: 395858"] My difficult child is one of a long line of difficult children, myself included. You can trace our family having a problem with authority all the way back to the Trail of Tears (if records could go back further I'm sure there would be more, just a hunch). As it is just me and her, and I already have a built-in knee-jerk reaction and very little patience, I find it very hard sometimes not to yell back, not to throw things, not to beat my own head against the wall. I've mellowed some with age, but I can't always reel in that reaction. The only reason I don't put my head through a wall sometimes is that I have enough headaches/migraines thankyouverymuch. Sometimes I can catch myself better than others, and I was almost numb when she came home from the hospital and pretty much handled everything calmly because of that, but that's worn off. I have no insurance, no doctor, best I've been able to do was take the advice from someone else here about using half a chlor-tab for anxiety. Does pretty well, too. Takes the edge off pretty good, anyway. [/QUOTE]
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