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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think that some people have "see therapist" as a catch all for all behavior.  It frankly is not the magic pill.

The problem is not your child, its you.  You don't have a plan which my father also told me was a plan to fail.

My rule for electronics has always been the 24 hour rule. Break the rules and loose them for 24 hours.  I also had a bad behavior jar with tasks written on pieces of paper.  If you misbehaved, you needed to pull the paper and have that thing done before you want to bed that night.  Most of the items did not take more than 10 minutes (vacuum living room, sweep kitchen, weed front yard, bring dog for 10 minute walk etc).

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This is a good thread- I think we all need a parenting wake-up call. But I don't like the chores-as-punishment thing. I try to offer chores as a privilege - we are fortunate to have lovely clothes to wash, a beautiful bathroom to keep clean for our guests, a yard to mow. I try to associate chores with positive feelings. When things are going really well, I say "hey, how about mowing the lawn!" and it usually works.

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