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[quote=Anonymous]When my son was 2.5-3, we had some significant behavioral developmental delays.  We had to walk a fine line between discipline and sending the kid over the edge with no chance of recovery for a number of hours.  Eventually we decided that the discipline wasn't worth the hours of tantruming and screaming that followed.  My son could not self regulate and once he lost control, we were looking at multiple hours to get him to calm down---it just wasn't worth it.

We worked with Dr. Shapiro to teach him self regulation skills.  Once we explicitly taught him that, we were now in a position to begin behavior modification and discipline.

I feel your pain about the long days...there were many days that I woke up feeling like it was groundhog day.

He's now 5 and doing well.  We are able to discipline using time outs, go to your room, saying sorry, etc just as you would for any other 5 year old.

But to get to this point, we had to address the underlying issue first.

Good luck[/quote]

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