Reply to Therapy for 2e 14yo

Forum Index » Kids With Special Needs and Disabilities

Reply to "Therapy for 2e 14yo"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]Op here - I just wanted to share one thing that was reinforced by the therapist, which seemed to really help. In case it helps anyone else.

During family therapy, DH and I shared how we were just really tired and frustrated with the daily challenge of fighting with her on everything. And DD was expressing how the IEP was useless- it was just the school nagging her about exactly all the same stuff that DH and I nag her about.

The therapist said that was a good thing, that the school could take over some of the nagging so that we could focus more on just being a family and doing family things. And suggested to DH and me that we make time for ourselves at least once a week to give ourselves a break from the stress of getting the kids to do anything- even trying to do fun stuff together as a family is so difficult because they are always initially oppositional to everything.

Both of these things has helped. I managed to find a novel activity that I thought DD would specifically enjoy and I got her to do it with me. Yes she refused at first, but I eventually convinced her and before she knew it she was actually enjoying the activity. It was the first time we’ve done an activity together and the important thing was we weren’t fighting.

And I have to say I think part of it was that I think she just really had an opportunity to vent at the family therapy session, and then afterwards she was in a much better mood.

Hope that helps someone. [/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