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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 445784" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Malika, forgive me if I repeat as I didn't read all the posts, but it sounds like once he gets his mind on something it is hard for him to redirect his thinking. OMG, my son would whine about wanting something for HOURS when he was young. Even now, he can hold it in better (there is hope), but when he knows something good is going to happen or if he is going to get, say, a birthday present that he wants...he will talk about them too often as in, "Oh, I can't wait. Can I please get it early? Maybe?" But he's polite about it now...lol.</p><p></p><p>I am trying to think back to what I did when he got obsessed and I think I tried the best I could to redirect his thinking so that his mind would switch gears (no easy trick). I do know that keeping his mind busy and on other things was what I tried to do. It has been years so I can not recall how successful I was...I guess that's good news for you because, if it is the same as with me, he will learn to better handle it when he gets something into his head that he feels is so necessary NOW! And he meant NOW...lol.</p><p></p><p>For Sonic, trying to validate his feelings didn't work. That just souped him up as in, "If you know how I feel, then why won't you buy it for me?" (tears) *sigh* I know these kids are uber-tricky. Huggz.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 445784, member: 1550"] Malika, forgive me if I repeat as I didn't read all the posts, but it sounds like once he gets his mind on something it is hard for him to redirect his thinking. OMG, my son would whine about wanting something for HOURS when he was young. Even now, he can hold it in better (there is hope), but when he knows something good is going to happen or if he is going to get, say, a birthday present that he wants...he will talk about them too often as in, "Oh, I can't wait. Can I please get it early? Maybe?" But he's polite about it now...lol. I am trying to think back to what I did when he got obsessed and I think I tried the best I could to redirect his thinking so that his mind would switch gears (no easy trick). I do know that keeping his mind busy and on other things was what I tried to do. It has been years so I can not recall how successful I was...I guess that's good news for you because, if it is the same as with me, he will learn to better handle it when he gets something into his head that he feels is so necessary NOW! And he meant NOW...lol. For Sonic, trying to validate his feelings didn't work. That just souped him up as in, "If you know how I feel, then why won't you buy it for me?" (tears) *sigh* I know these kids are uber-tricky. Huggz. [/QUOTE]
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