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snacks snacks and more snacks

Because of his high metabolism, David requires frequent snacks.  We do fresh fruit, canned fruit and baked goods.  The baked goods are more reward snacks than regular snacks. The dog was munching on a snack today.  Turns out he is getting his treats from David’s room.  Sure enough he had a whole box of Little Debbie Cosmic Brownies hidden in his room.  Grrrr… We don’t withhold food, rather we make every effort to ensure that he asks for permission, and that he doesn’t take them into his bedroom.  The only time he is denied a snack is right before meals. Recommendations?  We do lock our cupboards, but this cupboard is 6 feet off of the floor.   Tweet #fighting4answrs

Victory of the day 3-28-2012

Today’s victory is brought to you by David. David has a compulsion about electronic gadgets.  He takes them. Doesn’t matter who they belong to. Today he took his brother’s cell phone. Tonight, David gave it back without a fit, any lies, or a tantrum. If it only happens once in a while where he is honest about his takings, and gives things back, that is a victory.  Eventually, maybe we can get him trained to stop stealing.  But it is huge that he gave an item back without a meltdown. Related articles hoarding of electronic gadgets (whynotfathers.com) Tweet #fighting4answrs

again with the electronic gadgets…

David got caught with one of his brother’s DSi’s again.  You would think that he would learn.  But there is a hidden compulsion that drives him to take these things. It is most frustrating that over and over again we tell him he can’t do that, and he does it anyway. “I don’t know how it got in my bed…” he says.   We have tried to reward him on days when he doesn’t take anything, and we have tried to take things away when he gets caught, but nothing works. Now some people are of a mind to say: spank him…Well, I don’t know you, but I think we could spank him until your hand hurt, and it wouldn’t make a bit of difference to him. No, we don’t beat him or anything like that.  That would make no sense.  So he gets what ever taken away, and he

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