Right now E is currently having a better period (of course, I probably destroy that just by writing about it...).
It takes of our energy though, and of the already non existent time for the other kids.. We have to curl, curl, curl and curl even more. Not in big things, but to smooth it out. And our evenings are even more like a fucking parental bootcamp everytime. Schedules and rules, everything in its order, not a second to breeth in between, always bad conscience for the other boys, especially P.
One good thing though, we got a organizing white board from the HAB unit. It has a clock, and it measures and displays time. Day time and night time separately. It can have magnetic pics on it, and we can write on it. It will hopefully help a lot.
Prenumerera på:
Kommentarer till inlägget (Atom)
We used to do a behavior chart for our older, ADHD/ODD/SID child. It really worked - took a lot of the emotion out of parenting so that we weren't taking things personally. We were much more clear headed about things and could look to the chart to see the consequence for the behavior.
SvaraRaderaThe downside was that it took a HUGE amount of energy for us to do. But it does work.
The magnetic pics are a great idea - especially for kids on the spectrum. Non-verbal cues (sight cues) work especially well. We used to have a huge stop sign we'd hold up when the kids were doing (or on the verge of doing) something wrong, a yellow caution sign to let them know they needed to think about their current behavior and a green thumbs up sign that let them know they were doing the right thing.