Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Op here-- i also find the Ross Greene method hard to implement, and admit that that might be my own executive functioning issues coming into play. I just find our situation so completely overwhelming, and his methods requires so many conversations with a kid who refuses to talk about her behavior and emotions, and frankly, has next to no insight or awareness to their severity.
We started by “plan cing” in Greene’s terms almost everything. Which means letting go of expectations that the kid can’t meet. We weren’t able to start trying to plan B or add in expectations until this dramatic reduction in demands and changed approach had really lowered the temperature all around. Things felt less overwhelming then. To be clear, my kid did basically nothing but screens for a couple of months while we built trust, but we were in a pretty dire place.