Hi everyone, Under my old name (Norah) I posted loads a few weeks/months back about my dd's apalling strops and tantrums ! She is almost 6 and has almost been dropped off at the children's home many times this holiday !
Anyway - I have been giving Amazon fantastic business buying parenting books this summer - and finally started reading one last night that seems to make sense ! It's called "The Explosive Child" by Ross Greene ! Basically he reckons that kids who act like this don't really know why they do it - but for some reason they can't process information quite correctly yet - almost like a developmental delay, and because they don't know how to handle situations, typically transitions from one situation to another - they feel extremely frustrated and so low up ! From what I've read so far it sums my dd up perfectly !
Am now moving on to the solution side of it - which seems to be the exact opposite of what we have been doing (which absolutely doesn't work on her) - 1-2-3 Magic and time outs, and is based more on helping her process the info and make the transitions !!
By transitions he means for example - she's watching TV and I call her for dinner - she doesn't want to make the transition - I insist, and she goes ballistic. Similarly for us - she is playing in the morning - I am asking her to get dressed - she blows up !!
Just wondered if anyone else has any experience of his methods/theories - or if you have an explosive child and how you handle them ?
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"Explosive children" - anyone else got one ?
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BlueBeetle · 21/08/2006 17:16
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