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Why is adapive age different at Residential Treatment Center (RTC) then at home?
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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 373896" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>While they are in Residential Treatment Center (RTC) the structure does not bend to them, they bend to it. At home there are not enough people to maintain that structure and they can wear family down to do it for them, so they do. Try throwing away anything he won't pick up himself. Don't give chances to earn it back. If he wants another one he must earn the $$ to buy it. </p><p> </p><p>Read Love and Logic Parenting by Fay and Cline - they have excellent advice that really works. You can learn more about it at <a href="http://www.loveandlogic.com" target="_blank">www.loveandlogic.com</a> .</p><p> </p><p>I ignore most of the adaptive age stuff. I was pretty sure my son could do a load of laundry at age 8, whether they said his adaptive age was 2 or 20. I knew because I had seen him do it. Ditto for many things. Often we hear the adaptive age and then dumb down info and requirements which lets our kiddos work on an easy level and think they can stop working to reach a higher level of functioning. This is only my opinion, but often it worked for my kids. Some tdocs were horrified but it didn't matter to me. I figured that if he could do it before I knew his 'adaptive age' then he could do it after, even if it didn't technically fit that age.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 373896, member: 1233"] While they are in Residential Treatment Center (RTC) the structure does not bend to them, they bend to it. At home there are not enough people to maintain that structure and they can wear family down to do it for them, so they do. Try throwing away anything he won't pick up himself. Don't give chances to earn it back. If he wants another one he must earn the $$ to buy it. Read Love and Logic Parenting by Fay and Cline - they have excellent advice that really works. You can learn more about it at [URL="http://www.loveandlogic.com"]www.loveandlogic.com[/URL] . I ignore most of the adaptive age stuff. I was pretty sure my son could do a load of laundry at age 8, whether they said his adaptive age was 2 or 20. I knew because I had seen him do it. Ditto for many things. Often we hear the adaptive age and then dumb down info and requirements which lets our kiddos work on an easy level and think they can stop working to reach a higher level of functioning. This is only my opinion, but often it worked for my kids. Some tdocs were horrified but it didn't matter to me. I figured that if he could do it before I knew his 'adaptive age' then he could do it after, even if it didn't technically fit that age. [/QUOTE]
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