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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op again- maybe the example I gave was too extreme. What about- say- a trip to a grocery store.  Granted I’m not packing a sandwich on a trip to the grocery store, but I still feel like I need to “set my kid up for success” if I’m doing any serious grocery shopping. So, for example I wouldn’t take him after daycare pickup. I’d wait until a nice weekend morning, after breakfast, and it would be the only activity (so we wouldn’t go, like, after his karate class).

When can you be a more more spontaneous and less planned about something like a trip to the store or the mall or waiting at a doctor’s office or planning to eat at a restaurant? We do all of these things with relative success, but in the back of my mind I’m always praying my child will behave and in the front of my mind I’m always thinking about what he needs in order to keep him on track. [/quote]

I'm the PP who sets my kids up for success.  I think it depends on your particular kid. I have one who will get loud "I don't WANT TO BE HERE! I'm HUNGRY! Can we GO already?" and one who will lay down on the floor silently in protest.  You have to learn what your particular kid's triggers are and work around those. My loud one can be counted on to behave if I tell her EXACTLY what we're going into a store for.  "We're going to look for queen sheets that say the number 500 or higher." And then she will work harder than Benson and Stabler combined to find that for me. I can tell her in the grocery store "In this aisle we need two jars of spaghetti sauce and the shells," and she likes that much better than aimlessly following me around while I find stuff.[/quote]

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