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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Aside from the fact that you're choosing to take a child who growls, spits and pushes into a public area near other small children, which is appalling it itself, I think people are reacting really negatively to your "ignore once" approach.

I know you said that your therapist says to do it, and so you think it's justified, and by now you're probably desperate enough to believe anything, but that doesn't mean that parents at the playground will agree with you and be happy for you to "play" around their kids.

All kids, ESPECIALLY young and/or special needs, need consistency and follow through. That's how they learn. They don't reason things through. They just know that you can't do certain things. Even a dog or a rat can be conditioned to do or not do various things. But conditioning requires consistency.

If your child pushes in front of mine, especially in a dangerous way, and you stand by and say nothing... or if he "growls" at my toddler or baby and you say nothing... or if he spits at/on my child and you say nothing... even if it's part of some big grand plan of yours and you think that you'll probably deal with the behavior the next time it happens, I'm going to be angry.

I'm not a willing participant in your therapy games (that nobody even knows you're playing since we "don't deserve to know"). I'm not waiting around calmly for your kid to do it again before you do something about it.

And you getting angry at me getting angry isn't going to help your son.[/quote]

it's appalling to bring a child with autism into public? WOW.  You lost me there, and nothing else you wrote has any credibility.  [/quote]

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