Reply to Getting out the door every morning is so traumatic

Forum Index » Kids With Special Needs and Disabilities

Reply to "Getting out the door every morning is so traumatic"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]OP does your child take a stimulant or Clonidine or Intuniv? Sometimes waking them up for the med and a protein drink (even choc milk if they are picky) and then letting them go back to sleep for 45-60min helps the morning so much more

It also gets you up, some alone time, and everything ready before the second wake-up.

Then I would suggest a huge incentive. Positive reinforcements. Awards chart etc for a morning check list. Like a game. The only non negotiable is what time you leave the house. The rest of the stuff you gotta pick your battles. It’s like if they have 5 things on the morning list - if they get 10-15 a week they get X. If they get 15-20 they get Y. If they get 20-25 they get Z. Let them pick the incentives within reason. A fav weekend event. If they do all 5 on any given day it’s a small night award (10min of something, a game or a fav dessert item)

Don’t take anything away. No negative feedback. No yelling. You might cringe if they don’t do some basic things on the list  - even brushing teeth. But give it a week or so and see. ADHDers even with autism like rewards and games as long as they know there isn’t alterior negative motives. Then they’ll immediately regress.

Hugs to you [/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