REPETITIVE BEHAVIOURS

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wrinklytum · 15/06/2008 02:05

How to deal with them? DD has gdd ,no dx but is currently exhibiting certain repetitive behaviours.Now she has learned to pull herself up she is obsessed with doors,ie swingign off the handles!!Now,I'm well chuffed she can pull herself up but the obsessiveness bothers me.Shew will shuffle up to doors and pull herself up and would spend a good half hour swinging off them if I did not distract her (I have left her to it to see what she does)Do I let her experiment or do I distract?Her last phase was with mirrors and her reflection but this has been replaced by the door thing.Any advice??TIA.

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Seuss · 15/06/2008 08:52

My ds sometimes develops repetitive behaviours ( switching the lights on and off, singing same song over and over and over and over...) and to be honest I find the quickest times he has moved on is when I ignore him and let him do it where possible. He seems to get it out of his system quicker plus there is less danger of him doing it to get a reaction from me. If I intervene he can get stressed and it becomes more of an issue. Lately he developed a thing about turning up the stereo and he has been stopping himself by putting barriers in front of the dial! V. impressed!

ouryve · 15/06/2008 23:40

If I tried to stop all my kids' repetitive behaviours, I'd go crazy. Unless he's in danger (eg of trapping fingers when playing with the door or climbing to reach light switches) I let my youngest at it for a few minutes and distract him once he's got it out of his system a little. We even make games out of some of them, eg bouncing from one sofa to another has become the silly boing boing game. I do curb some of DS1's more, since some of them are destructive or invade other people's space to much.

Romy7 · 16/06/2008 10:24

Has she got a walking frame? Just wondering if she is enjoying being upright and the moving sensation and if she is 'ready' for the next step, but it's the only way she can get there... don't know how old she is or whether this is appropriate(!)
(if you do get an answer about swinging on door handles, I'd love to be able to stop DS1 (NT6) doing it btw!)

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