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You know how these books are - it's always easy to write it and a whole lot

harder to do it!

I don't have a whole lot of success with positive or negative with my

authority resistant son. So I can understand perfectly if this doesn't work

for you.

But for instance, instead of saying, " Stop picking your nose. " You could

say, " Please go somewhere private to do that. " Or " Please use a tissue. "

My son has gotten in trouble in school a couple times when a teacher will

say something to another kid like, " Stop putting your hands on your head. "

Well, hearing this, my son just HAS to do it. So he does and then he gets

punished. LOL!

In a situation like that where they are doing something inappropriate,

instead of telling them to stop doing it, ask them to, " Please keep your

hands on your desk. " or something along those lines. In other words, try to

think what you want them to do instead and then phrase it that way. Does

that make it clearer? But I completely understand that there are no perfect

solutions with kids like this! When you wrote that about how she has to do

something after you tell her not to, I thought it would be helpful to pass

this information on to you just in case it might be helpful in your

situation.

Kathy :)

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