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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think threatening the loss of future parties is a good idea or effective. What worked was the reminders, the previewing, the talking up her maturity.

You need to have a back up plan for leaving upset for every outing. That means you have a way to leave whether she’s happy about it or not. There should not be any negotiating. [/quote]

OP here. I agree, but the thing is we have always done all of the above — giving the warnings it was almost time to leave, letting her pick 2 more things to do, and playing up being a big kid when it is time to go, but she still got into the habit of handling transitions from the high energy and fun activities poorly. When adding in the threat of missing out on something in the future she is eager to do, it was a piece of cake. Today at least.

I don’t like negative reinforcement and threats, but I’m sad to admit it worked today in ways lots of other methods have not recently. Hopefully this is a stage! [/quote]

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