The Weekly WordTeaching Children New Behaviors
Tell your child what you want your child to do. When you are at the store and you tell your child to “stop running,” you are telling your child what not to do. That will not help your child change his or her behavior. Children need to hear what you want them to do - not what to stop doing. You probably want your child to walk quietly and help you shop. Give your child a positive direction because a negative direction can be confusing. A negative direction assumes that your child knows what you want. Don’t assume anything with children. Give them positive instructions and give them the instructions each time they are going to the store until it becomes a habit.
Teach your child the behaviors that you want them to use. If you want your child to play quietly in the house, take the time to teach your child how to do that. Show your child what it looks like when he/she is playing quietly. Tell your child how you feel when you hear yelling in the house. Perhaps your children are constantly bickering and fighting with one another. Take some time to teach them how you want them to interact. Show them how to sit on the floor together and not poke each other. Show them how to walk by each other and not make a face.
Have your child practice. After children have been taught the correct behavior, they need to practice using that behavior. If your child has difficulty doing homework, have him/her practice the appropriate behaviors by working quietly on a fun project for a specific amount of time. (Remember, first you have to teach the behavior that you want to see). Let your child practice until he/she understands how long 10-15 minutes is. Help your child see how much he can get done in ten minutes. If your child has difficulty sitting at a table and eating with the family, have an afternoon snack time where your child can practice eating appropriately.
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 EUSTACIA CUTLER Eustacia Cutler is the mother of four children. Her oldest child is Temple Grandin, who is known as the most successful person with autism in the world today. Eustacia is a graduate of Harvard. She has been a band singer at the Pierre Hotel, New York City, performed and written for theater and cabaret, and written documentaries on disabilities for major television networks. Her current book, "A Thorn in My Pocket" describes raising Temple in the conservative world of the 1950’s. Eustacia was one of the first to tread new ground as she overcame the difficulties of “challenging the system." Like every parent, she wanted the best for her child. She understands the myth, reality, angst, and guilt a family experiences in society. She is where you will be in the future: looking back on the things you did to help your child. When the “system” is not meeting the needs of your child, you must be creative and design your own program. Piece by piece, you and your child can develop a meaningful, interrelated reality. Eustacia will inspire you to reach beyond your current resources and make it work for you and your child. |
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| A Thorn in My Pocket This excerpt from her book gives insight into what Eustacia felt as a mother. 'I’m practicing Bach at the piano and Temple, now perhaps 2 1/2 but still not speaking, is on the floor beside me, absorbed in crumpling a newspaper, humming to herself, squeezing the paper, watching it slowly spring open, shredding it, gazing at the pieces that float about her. I try to entice her with colored plastic cups and spoons, but she won’t look at me. “See the bright colors? See how the cups fit together? Now the spoons. Isn’t that fun?” She stares for a moment and returns to her newspaper. I tell myself that children find their own playthings and don’t have to be entertained with what we think of as toys. But she looks so forlorn, sitting there absorbed in her tattered plaything, sooty with newspaper ink. Like a slum child nobody cares for. My pretty baby with her blue eyes and blond curls. She who would prefer me to leave her alone. The snub cuts deep. Eerie in her calm refusal to engage, she’s closed the door on me, polite but firm. And so with the best intentions we each neglect the other. Isolated, numb, we play it safe, I in my world, she in hers. But what is her world? I turn back to the Bach. I’m not very good at it, but it’s better than nothing. She hums. She’s humming the Bach.' |
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A B C's of Homework
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Teaching children how to do homework can be as easy as A B C! Come to this webinar and learn these practical and useful tips that can really help children be successful with school work.
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More about Kathy Rentfrow's testimony before the Senate Appropriations DoD subcommittee for the Dystonia Foundation
As a parent of a child with multiple disabilities, I am active in numerous support/research/advocacy groups. One of the groups I am most involved with is the Dystonia Medical Research Foundation (DMRF). Each year (this year it was May 5), my daughter Melissa and I attend an advocacy day with the foundation on Capitol Hill. We talk with legislators (well, usually we talk to their aides) and make them aware of issues affecting those living with dystonia. One of the issue we frequently discuss is including/retaining dystonia as an approved condition for research in the DoD Peer-reviewed Medical Research Program. Since this list is a yearly act of Congress (literally), and Dystonia increasingly affects soldiers with traumatic brain injury, the DMRF considers this a top priority.
Kathy Rentfrow (cont)
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