Have any parents on here had access to any courses like this? Ds1 is getting larger and I am working hard to switch over more to situations being controlled verbally (so if he refuses to go to bed I no longer just lift him up to his bedroom, but work on reinforcers etc). There are times though when he does need to be physically handled, either because he's trying to do somehting like headbutt the window or when we're out on the street and he's trying to do something forbiden. Last week we were out for a walk and he wanted to look through a neighbours letterbox and through their windows (nose pressed to the glass). Obviously that's not allowed but we ended up having a kind of physical scrap in the street, which a) looks terrible and b) can't continue as one of us risks getting hurt - if he runs off it's straight into the road, which gives me the shivers.
I've thought about asking at ds1's school whether parents could go to the same training as staff. Has anyone done anything like this?