On Sep 26 01:57 96, Amber Floyd of 1:377/3 wrote to All Users:
AF>         I have noticed a patern with Tam that seems strange to me.  Her
AF> behavior is usually very good, but there are times when she begins to,
AF> more and more, slip into unacceptable behaviors.  When I finally confront 
AF> her
AF> on some aspect ("You must do this over, and do it corectly"), she 
screems, 
AF> and
AF> crys, sounding more angry and panicked than anythign else.  When that 
AF> dosn't
AF> work, she eventually calms down, appologises, and is the sweetest kid
AF> imaginable afterwards.  It's as if the whole thing were staged to give 
er
AF> some sort of catharcic reliece.  Is this ADD, or just being a kid?
My son had a somewhat similar thing about homework: sometimes I knew I just 
had to keep pushing until he cried, then when he calmed down he would do the 
assignment.
Jerry Schwartz
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