How do you teach respect for authority?

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Registered: 02-13-2006
How do you teach respect for authority?
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Sun, 11-11-2007 - 1:58pm

Andrew has been having more and more trouble at school and home with listening to people in authority... whether it's DH and I, teacher, principal, or whomever. He just doesn't think he has to listen to anyone. Occasionally he will comply with his main (sp ed) teacher, but if an aide or another school staff person asks him to do something (like stop running in the halls), he will look them squarely in the eye and say, "I don't have to listen to you." We get the same thing at home. When I tell him he needs to do X, he says, "No, I won't."

How do you teach this? I fear he will end up in a very unpleasant place in his future if he can't learn this now. A psychiatrist said a few years back that this was a 'red flag' behavior for BPD. Anyone have experience with this?

Melissa

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Registered: 04-07-2003
Sun, 11-11-2007 - 4:44pm

I can somewhat understand what you are saying. Joshua seems to have this sense of what he thinks should be or not be. And if it is not with in what he thinks

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Registered: 06-25-2003
Sun, 11-11-2007 - 7:21pm

Tricky one.


I wish someone would figure it out and teach it to me, because I have always been an irreverent sort. ;)


I wonder if some visual cluee would help, like a kind of "org chart" of the school. The principal is here (on top) then the teachers, then the aides, ect etc.

-Paula

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Sun, 11-11-2007 - 9:16pm

I love this