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Originally Posted by Elio
Pick your battles  with our grandson, we started out when he was younger with playing the same something over and over again, we did rotate occasionally. The idea was the comfort and familiarity of the item would help calm, and the repetitiveness would bore. Like anything, it didn't work all the time. Now that he is 7, it's much easier; however, we don't have him as much and we are not dealing with a child on the spectrum.
When I worked in the group homes, with one child that had trouble with going to bed, the rule was just that he had to be in his room and quiet. This also did not work all the time and often we'd have to sit at his door so he could see we were there. |
Thanks, Elio! Part of her thing is she keeps asking us to come into her room for various reasons--she wants a marker (to color), she wants different socks/pants, she wants to be tucked in under blankets, she wants to move from bed to sleeping on body pillow on the floor, and other reasons. I think we need to start setting more limits (though attempts to do that tonight led to her laying in there and sobbing...) I think we just need to say that one of us can come in x number of times, then that's it (unless, of course, she's sick or hurt or something).