Reply to How do I help my parents and in-laws deal with anxious 4yr old

Forum Index » General Parenting Discussion

Reply to "How do I help my parents and in-laws deal with anxious 4yr old "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]My DD has anxiety that stems around communication. She had moderate hearing loss that we didn’t get resolved until around 2.5, so prior to that we didn’t understand a word she said. She is highly verbal so this was huge source of frustration. Anyway, she her communication has greatly improved but she’s extremely anxious and worried about not being heard, being interrupted, someone misunderstanding her etc. She is in OT to help her regulate her emotions and she is making progress but meltdown still do happen. My parents and in laws see this strictly has a behavior issue that if we just are stricter, she will be “obey.” When she is having a meltdown, yelling, scolding, punishing, she making it 10 times worse. We do not let her get away with bad behavior but we don’t handle it in the traditional “you yelled at us, so now you need to sit time out” way. It simply doesn’t work with her. Her grandparents are this “because i said so” type, so when we are calming her down, they see it as “letting her win.” At this point I feel like they don’t even like her all that much because compared to my older child (7) she is a lot harder to handle and requires a lot of patience and talking to help her work through her meltdowns. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics