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EVERYTHING is a battle - I am TIRED!
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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 581158" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>The only things we found that helped at all before we got real dxes and real help, were...</p><p></p><p>1) School work stayed AT SCHOOL. The only home work he brought home was reading, and that was limited to 20 minutes a day (in our case, difficult child actually loves to read, across a fairly wide range of material, so it wasn't a battle - and the other kids didn't know that his homework was different than theirs - another important factor for difficult child)</p><p></p><p>2) Find something he can succeed at. ONE THING. But it has to tie into school or some social aspect, somehow. A sport, music, a trade-based skill (can he fix things?)... something useful or valued to others. </p><p></p><p>3) We did NOT go down the computer games road. Gut feel on our part, but the more I see, the more it seems like the artificial world is bad for difficult children. However... having started? I can't tell you how to back out of it. What it does mean is... almost 24/7 parenting. One of us is ALWAYS available, always interacting (for us, we cover 20 hours of the clock between us). It is far more work, far more intense - but part of what many difficult child kids need.</p><p></p><p>The biggest differences came from getting accurate dxes. Which took way too many years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 581158, member: 11791"] The only things we found that helped at all before we got real dxes and real help, were... 1) School work stayed AT SCHOOL. The only home work he brought home was reading, and that was limited to 20 minutes a day (in our case, difficult child actually loves to read, across a fairly wide range of material, so it wasn't a battle - and the other kids didn't know that his homework was different than theirs - another important factor for difficult child) 2) Find something he can succeed at. ONE THING. But it has to tie into school or some social aspect, somehow. A sport, music, a trade-based skill (can he fix things?)... something useful or valued to others. 3) We did NOT go down the computer games road. Gut feel on our part, but the more I see, the more it seems like the artificial world is bad for difficult children. However... having started? I can't tell you how to back out of it. What it does mean is... almost 24/7 parenting. One of us is ALWAYS available, always interacting (for us, we cover 20 hours of the clock between us). It is far more work, far more intense - but part of what many difficult child kids need. The biggest differences came from getting accurate dxes. Which took way too many years. [/QUOTE]
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