Putting this in neurodiverse because i am neurodiverse and i’m working with an autistic population.
Most of what I’ve been doing so far is Natural Environment Training, which is cool, but every time a kid gets super upset i almost always freeze for a bit before doing anything else. For little kids like toddlers, crying will just happen, its whatever
But for like, the 5 year olds, it’s so distressing seeing them distressed, how the fuck do parents do this what tje fuck
Definitely feel this too. My kid once told me “you like being angry at me” when we denied snacks and caused us to have to reasess how we were communicating. Its a very hard cycle to break and will not happen naturally.
Thanks for the book rec as well!
The book is 50% work sheet and 50% reading. It’s a very easy read and you read each chapter in about 10ish minutes. What I’ve taken from it just in the first two chapters is, if your bag is full of swords the only thing you’re looking for is a fight.