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Originally Posted by Bipolarartist
With kids how long does it take them to learn about personal space? We have been trying to teach it to my youngest since forever but she is now 12 and still has no idea.
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Hmm. My middle son was the one who had the biggest problem with this. He has ADHD and a variety of other developmental deficits that I think slowed the process for him. I would just say keep reinforcing and reminding. Try to have her tell you what is wrong in her behavior/space issue when things come up rather than just telling her. For instance, my son used to push his younger brother, etc., and what I finally learned to do was to get him to stop/freeze and then ask him to define for me why I was asking him to stop. He couldn't just tune me out that way; he actually had to think and verbalize the problem and figure out how to fix it. He made a lot more progress once I figured that out, probably because I was placing the responsibility for assessing his own behavior on him instead of me trying to do it for him. By 8th grade things were getting better; just took great patience.