How To Handle Kids Negative Attention Seeking Behaviors

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[CarrieMartin-ziqd]

The big struggle in our house is that my husband and I are ignoring the attention seeking behavior of our middle child, but our oldest child continues to react. We have tried coaching her, but she gets pretty wound up by the behaviors. How can we help her to remain neutral during the attention seeking behaviors of her younger sibling? Thank you!

[lisacorley]

This is really helpful when my son kept kicking the ball at the wall in the living room he was getting the emotional reaction when we stopped giving him it the used clear command he stopped it makes so much sense novelty seeking behavior thank you ADHD 😎

[Spmama]

Now next LEVEL!!!
Getting past it with the proper parenting
Doing a parenting NAMI class this fall…

[L._._]

My son is all about the reactions rn… “I’m dumb… just call me dumb, .. just hurt me… scratch me !! “ when asked to do something . I used to go “ don’t say that ! Stop it” now we ignore. Last night it was over taking a bath.
I told him” you can either get in the bath right now or go in your room and go to bed by yourself with no story and no tv tomorrow “ he complained a while but he did lay down and fall asleep without me. Is that ok to use the “no tv tomorrow”?

[zarinahzarif]

My son is 5 almost 6. Everynight before and after bathtime he runs through the house and laughs and i chase behind him. Its late and I just want to get the bedtime routine over with so he can go to sleep.

[Caratdarla]

My 16yo likes to belittle anything my husband and I like or do. For instance - we like to keep our yard tidy. Anytime i get out the leaf blower to clean off the driveway he will say somthing like "Why are you always doing that? It looks better with all the grass on it. What a waste of time."