Where's the off switch?
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| Wed, 01-10-2007 - 10:47am |
I think my DS has a faulty off switch :-). He cannot stop doing things even after being told repeatedly. Lately, one problem has been burping. Now, I know that 8 year old boys love to burp, but he does not stop. Here's a typical conversation: "Taran, stop. -pause, more burping -I need you to stop burping now. - pause, more burping- Stop burping and listen to your swimming teacher. -pause, more burping - If you do not stop burping now you will have no video games when we get home tonight." The video game threat finally got through to him, but of course he was back to burping later in the swimming lesson.
It's not just burping though. He likes to sing (annoyingly at times) and he can be the class clown X100. At school, he's in a self-contained classroom where they get warnings before getting a color drop, which counts against their daily points. It's like he doesn't process the warnings. His teacher wrote that with as many warnings as he gets, he should not have so many color drops.
Anybody else with this problem?
Misty

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Renee,
Good point on the 123 magic thing:
We use a modified version to get them to start behaviours (and sometimes to stop them).
We could backwards from 5.
It's funny how you can say "it's time to come inside now" 15 times and it doesn't go in. But I only have to say "FIVE" once, and they both come scampering...
It sometimes works for stopping behaviours, too; -apart from the argumentative ones.
-Paula
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I don't know exactly how many times he gets a warning before a color drop. Buy evidently, it's more than other kids are getting. I wonder if the 1-2-3 Magic approach would work in the classroom. We used to be good about using it at home, but we've slacked off.
The tough part, I think, is motivating a behavior to stop. He loves the attention he's getting from acting out (class clown again) so from his perspective, why should he stop?
Just thinking out loud a bit. Thanks for the input!
Misty
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