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[quote=Anonymous]This is a question about how much we, as parents, should accommodate our child's mental health issues.  DS 14 has major anxiety/OCD/rigidity/asperger-ish behaviors.  We've booked travel on Southwest and the whole travel experience is always very difficult for our family because of his issues.  DS will be anxious about being late the whole day, which would be okay if he could exercise self-control, but his anxiety will manifest in really condescending and nasty behavior, along with foul words towards his sibling and the rest of the family.

Since I know this will happen, and it's already causing me some anxiety, I'm contemplating whether to pay the additional $15/person each way for pre-check in, so $120 total for 4 of us round-trip.  It probably won't help our seating that much, but I could at least tell DS that I understand his anxiety and in this small way am trying to help make things easier.  I'll of course talk to DS in advance of the trip about how he can exercise self-control.  Alternatively, I suppose I could talk to the gate agent when we arrive and see if he and either my spouse or myself can have advance boarding.

I'm just wondering how other parents handle these types of issues and balance the desire to accommodate, while also teaching our children that sometimes you just gotta deal with things.[/quote]

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