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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]New poster, but there are a couple professionals I trust (a behavioral pediatrician and a psychiatrist) who are very familiar with PDA type traits but are reluctant to consider it a helpful diagnosis and don't think it should be in the DSM.

regardless, it can be helpful to read about it and pick up behavioral parenting tips like people listed above.

For some kids, having a choice is helpful. Not "please put on your shoes" but like pp suggests "your shoes are by the door. Do you want to put them on yourself or do you want help?"

Or for older children "Dinner is at 6pm. Do you want to unload the dishwasher and set the table now or set an alarm to do it at 5:45 or sometime in between?"[/quote]

My experience with a PDA child is that many of the typical parenting tricks don't work for her. Choices are a prime example. All the parenting books say to give your child choices, but for my PDA kid, choices are just another demand that you're placing on her and makes her more stressed. [/quote]

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