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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t want to hijack OP’s thread, but I have a DS who is similar.

Example: today we were at the park. There was a homeless man who was acting a bit odd so I was restricting DS to one sector of the park. Ds spent almost the whole time we were at the park trying to get over to the sector where he was not allowed. Literally he’d make a run for that direction, I would grab him and say no, he’d throw himself on the ground and scream. Then repeat. It’s just such a bummer because he completely missed out on getting any exercise or having any fun in our whole outing. He just will not give up. This went on for 90 minutes.

Similarly we have a pool outside (we don’t live in DC), and he constantly throws things in it. Each time he throws something in we remove him from the area and put him in time out but then the INSTANT he has access to the pool area again it starts all over.

The idea of just ignoring the tantrum or walking away has never made sense to me. If I do that, DD will continue the destructive behavior or move onto something else more destructive. He also engages in self harm behaviors (hitting head and putting things in his mouth), so I literally cannot take eyes off of him for even a moment.

Ds can also reach up onto the counters and constantly grabs everything and smashes it. He’s just so fast and destructive. Our older child wasn’t like this so I don’t know what to do.

You’re not alone, OP. We’ve had developmental evaluations and also an autism evaluation and they don’t think autism, but he does have some developmental and speech delays. [/quote]

My middle DD was like that. The only thing that worked was basically tell her a max of two times. So for your park example, if I had to chase him down once after having told him no, I would have said we would leave if he did it again. And then we would leave.  It's really inconvenient and I would always need to think of something else fun for her siblings to do so they wouldn't resent her, but it's worth it for the change in behavior. If you have a spouse, that helps with the siblings because then one of you can stay and the other goes home. [/quote]

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