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What's your difficult child shorthand?
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<blockquote data-quote="slsh" data-source="post: 159716" data-attributes="member: 8"><p>Randomly thinking today and I wondered what you guys use with your difficult children for verbal cues. We use/used:</p><p> </p><p>Toothpaste - started when he was 3 or 4, a cue when he was starting to rev up and get really oppositional or generally gfgish. It was a nonthreatening cue, not a command or instruction or anything he really could argue with. I'm proud of this one because we came up with the idea all on our own. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p> </p><p>Personal space - 'cuz boundaries mean nothing to him.</p><p> </p><p>Volume control - 'cuz he has no concept of moderating his voice volume.</p><p> </p><p>Asked and answered - I'm a fan of Law & Order, and this still comes in handy when he asks the same doggone question, over and over and over and over (perseveration anyone???).</p><p> </p><p>Hoop (as in go thru, not around) - when he's expending *way* too much energy trying to beat the system when it would be just so simple to do what he's supposed to do.</p><p> </p><p>Argh (seriously) - because he has this incredibly irritating habit of cracking his hands, neck, and back - over and over again. Drives me mad.</p><p> </p><p>Not my problem - when he's trying reeeeeeally hard to get a rise out of me by telling me about some goofball stunt he's pulled. His junk is his junk, not mine. He *hates* it when I say this - unfortunately, I'm saying it a lot these days.</p><p> </p><p>What do you guys use??</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slsh, post: 159716, member: 8"] Randomly thinking today and I wondered what you guys use with your difficult children for verbal cues. We use/used: Toothpaste - started when he was 3 or 4, a cue when he was starting to rev up and get really oppositional or generally gfgish. It was a nonthreatening cue, not a command or instruction or anything he really could argue with. I'm proud of this one because we came up with the idea all on our own. ;) Personal space - 'cuz boundaries mean nothing to him. Volume control - 'cuz he has no concept of moderating his voice volume. Asked and answered - I'm a fan of Law & Order, and this still comes in handy when he asks the same doggone question, over and over and over and over (perseveration anyone???). Hoop (as in go thru, not around) - when he's expending *way* too much energy trying to beat the system when it would be just so simple to do what he's supposed to do. Argh (seriously) - because he has this incredibly irritating habit of cracking his hands, neck, and back - over and over again. Drives me mad. Not my problem - when he's trying reeeeeeally hard to get a rise out of me by telling me about some goofball stunt he's pulled. His junk is his junk, not mine. He *hates* it when I say this - unfortunately, I'm saying it a lot these days. What do you guys use?? [/QUOTE]
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