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owutatangledweb  Posts: 2761
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My daughter (now 19) did some intensive therapy this past summer. One thing the therapist had them each do, was make a "comfort box". They decorated it, put sayings on it, then they filled it with things that comforted them. For tween to teen girls, they put things like a favorite perfume, scented lotion, crayons and paper, bubble wrap to pop, music to listen to only when they were upset, etc... I can't remember what all else. But, for your six year old, it could be a special stuffed animal, crayons, a special book, etc. You would explain to him that he's not being sent to his room to be punished but only to calm down and go to his comfort box. I franly, don't know if this will work or not. But, I thought it might be worth a try. I don't know if my daughter ever used hers or not, but she said she did a few times. She even threw a cigarette in there!!!! I found it later (unsmoked). It seems to me that if you treat sending him to his room as something other than punishment, it might just work. Take some time out for yourself too. I don't have a comfort box, but I have a front porch with a bench with my cigarettes close by, and all my prayers memorized. "Knowledge is the antidote to fear." - Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I stole this from someone else in one of these forums - but it fits! ;)
I am the mother of a 21 year old BP daughter (whom at the moment, I say is "in remission" with the help of Lithium, biweekly therapy for 4.5 years, and an intensive outpatient course of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT).) |
