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<blockquote data-quote="Christy" data-source="post: 158354" data-attributes="member: 225"><p>As a mom who caused a caused a full-blown meltdown over a glass of water yesterday (silly me I thought he could wait a few minutes, boy was I wrong!), I can tell you that hind sight is always 20/20 but maybe offering a small snack that he could reach himself would have worked????? I couldn't agree more that your difficult child was being unreasonable but unfortunately they don't opperate on reason! </p><p></p><p>Here's something you could try inorder to make your point. Ask difficult child to brush his teeth. When he is in the middle of brushing, tell him to go get dressed. Insist that he do it now. If he tries to put down the toothbrush, tell him he needs to finish brushing. He starts brushing again, tell him that you need him dressed now. Hopefully he will verbalize that it is not possible to do both things at the same time. Then you can ask him to think back to when he asked you to ______ and ______ at the same time. Was that possible? Was it reasonable to get upset because Mom could not do both things at once? </p><p></p><p>I can sympathize with you when it comes to waking up to bellowing demands. That's how my day begins as well, argh!!!!</p><p></p><p>Good Luck</p><p>Christy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Christy, post: 158354, member: 225"] As a mom who caused a caused a full-blown meltdown over a glass of water yesterday (silly me I thought he could wait a few minutes, boy was I wrong!), I can tell you that hind sight is always 20/20 but maybe offering a small snack that he could reach himself would have worked????? I couldn't agree more that your difficult child was being unreasonable but unfortunately they don't opperate on reason! Here's something you could try inorder to make your point. Ask difficult child to brush his teeth. When he is in the middle of brushing, tell him to go get dressed. Insist that he do it now. If he tries to put down the toothbrush, tell him he needs to finish brushing. He starts brushing again, tell him that you need him dressed now. Hopefully he will verbalize that it is not possible to do both things at the same time. Then you can ask him to think back to when he asked you to ______ and ______ at the same time. Was that possible? Was it reasonable to get upset because Mom could not do both things at once? I can sympathize with you when it comes to waking up to bellowing demands. That's how my day begins as well, argh!!!! Good Luck Christy [/QUOTE]
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