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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I have a child much like yours (it seems.)

Most helpful to us has been reading the work of Kazdin and Greene.  Livesinthebalance.org (Greene's site) is increasingly helpful as my child becomes more articulate about his emotions.

Also extremely helpful have been a couple of sessions talking with a psychiatrist who specializes in working with kids.  We met w/ the psychiatrist - who helped us identify a few strategies to try, and who also helped us determine whether or not we needed to escalate testing or other services for our child.

I'd start w/ some of those things.  Many on this board will be extremely helpful, and some responses (as you're seeing) will scare you about the presumed severity of behavioral issues that will be a horror in the classroom.  You don't sound like you're there yet w/ your daughter.  There are lots of techniques you can try and it may be that one or two new tactics or approaches will be the key to helping your daughter work through emotions more helpfully.  If you can really focus on figuring out what some of her triggers are that will also help (is it anxiety, control, fear of being last in a social setting, etc...)

There are a lot of wonderful kids out there for whom the conventional disciplinary tactics just don't work.  It will test you as a parent to relearn other ways of working towards better behaviors but it can definitely be done and you have a lot going right already w/ your daughter in terms of who she has for parents, the school resources, your willingness to explore other options, etc...

Good luck!  [/quote]

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