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Handling "Smoke Screens" in Counseling

docspeak wrote 2 weeks ago: HANDLING THE “SMOKE SCREEN”: Smoke is used in warfare to confuse the enemy and disguise movement and … more →

Tags: Counselors, counseling with difficult youngsters, counseling with the resistant youngser, dealing with smoke screen behavior, getting back to counseling issues

The Omnipresence of Olma

thetamingofachildfromhell wrote 3 weeks ago: When I was 1 year old, my parents, in what I now realize was infinite wisdom, hired a housekeeper to … more →

Tags: Self-Help, Children, ADHD, hyperactive child, Help my Child

Burning Down the House

thetamingofachildfromhell wrote 3 weeks ago: I was 7 years old, in a time when neighborhoods were still rife with empty lots, and virgin, unspoil … more →

Tags: Self-Help, ADHD, hyperactive child, Help my Child, challenging child, Hyperactivity

The Sky Is Falling (or) Nuts From Above

thetamingofachildfromhell wrote 3 weeks ago: I recall, one day, presumably during the school year months, when I went completely nuts, pun intend … more →

Tags: Self-Help, ADHD, hyperactive child, Help my Child, challenging child, Hyperactivity

The Call Ahead Visit

thetamingofachildfromhell wrote 3 weeks ago: As I recall, while I was growing up my parents had several friends and “family friends” to whom we p … more →

Tags: Self-Help, ADHD, hyperactive child, Help my Child, challenging child, Hyperactivity

Lightning Man, Lightning Man

thetamingofachildfromhell wrote 3 weeks ago: Lightning Man, Lightning Man, does whatever a Lightning Man can; room to room fast as light, wreakin … more →

Tags: Self-Help, ADHD, hyperactive child, Help my Child, challenging child, Hyperactivity

The Crab in the Hat

thetamingofachildfromhell wrote 3 weeks ago: I was never a good listener.  In fact my curiosity always so outweighed my patience, that my ears se … more →

Tags: Self-Help, ADHD, hyperactive child, Help my Child, challenging child, Hyperactivity

Swimming Lessons

thetamingofachildfromhell wrote 3 weeks ago: Ah, the swimming lesson, a vital tool, to be sure, in the arsenal of any young child who’s hopes and … more →

Tags: Self-Help, ADHD, hyperactive child, Help my Child, challenging child, Hyperactivity

The Birds' Egg Fiasco

thetamingofachildfromhell wrote 3 weeks ago: During my childhood years, my family would take short vacations, at various times throughout the yea … more →

Tags: Self-Help, ADHD, hyperactive child, Help my Child, challenging child, Hyperactivity

The Harness

thetamingofachildfromhell wrote 3 weeks ago: So, as I’ve said, I was an active kid.  Active of course being polite slang for insanely supersonic. … more →

Tags: Self-Help, ADHD, hyperactive child, Help my Child, challenging child, Hyperactivity

Oven Expirementation

thetamingofachildfromhell wrote 3 weeks ago: To have described me as being curious, would have been much like describing Hitler as being unpleasa … more →

Tags: Self-Help, ADHD, hyperactive child, Help my Child, challenging child, Hyperactivity

Crib Climbing

thetamingofachildfromhell wrote 3 weeks ago: It all began, I suppose, when I was somewhere around 1 and a half years old.  I was the second born, … more →

Tags: Self-Help, ADHD, hyperactive child, Help my Child, challenging child, Hyperactivity

Let's Get Out of Here!

docspeak wrote 1 month ago: LET’S GET OUT OF HERE! The counselor’s office can be a semi-intimidating place for some youngsters. … more →

Tags: Counselors, Counseling, counseling skills, counseling skills with children, counseling with children, creating a good counseling session, pediatric counseling, pediatric psychology, Therapy

The Rise and Fall of Il Duce

dufmanno wrote 1 month ago: You just wait until I can talk.   No, no, no, not again……. After a particularly grueling … more →

Tags: Kids and Parenting, kids with potty mouth, foul language in preschool, kindergarten options, giving up, difficult kids, difficult children, Bad Behavior

The Explosive Child: Call-in Teleseminar

docspeak wrote 2 months ago: Special Guest: Dr. Doug Riley, author of best-seller, The Defiant Child, and the new book, What Your … more →

Tags: Counselors, Educators, Family, Parents, childhood tantrums and explosions, dealing with explosive behavior, explosive behavior, explosive behavior in adolescents, explosive behavior in children

Prince of Id

dufmanno wrote 2 months ago:  So here I am again. Today I sit in an office across from another set of baffled educators trying to … more →

Tags: Parenting, boys with serious attitude, difficult children, boys with attitude, getting in trouble

Big Girl=Big Pain In the Ass2 comments

privategrrl wrote 2 months ago: Last March, or so, I told Big Girl that we should sign up Sunshine for the Latch Key program at scho … more →

Working with the Child Who Minimizes

docspeak wrote 2 months ago: “IT DOESN’T BOTHER ME THAT MUCH.” Minimization is “leaky” denial. In m … more →

Tags: Counselors, defiance and minimization, defiance behaivor, minimizing as a defense, minimizing behavior, the child who minimizes, The Difficult Child

Noncritical Noticing

docspeak wrote 2 months ago: NONCRITICAL NOTICING: It’s a safe bet that many, if not most, oppositional and defiant youngst … more →

Tags: Family, Parents


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