Strange form of behaviour modification..

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I am a bit thrown back by all of this, and have no idea what to make of it. At my church there is this son and mother that come almost every week, and I teach Sunday school to the boy. He is 9 years old, and has behavioural issues.. He has been diagnosed with ADHD, and is probably the most obvious case of it I have ever seen.

Anyways, there is an issue with him almost every week, but I have tried to be patient and understanding. Anyways, this morning he was an absolute angel.. He seemed so happy and got along great with the other kids, listened to the lesson and participated very well.

It was like he was a completely different kid, and then I saw something that really confused me. Part of the activity that we were doing involved making actions to a biblical story.. At one point, the kids had to raise their hands in the air and pretend that their fingers were rain coming down from the sky.. When he put his hands up in the air, there, sticking above the top of his pants, was a pull-up.

After class, I took him aside, and asked him how he had been.. He seemed perfectly fine, and said he had a lot of fun today.

When the congregation was having coffee after the service, I approached his mother to tell him how well he has been behaving and that I was surprised at the change, and said that I had to ask what had changed. She told me that they were trying something "new" for behavioural modification, and it seemed to be working, which I couldn't argue with.

I felt that it wasn't my business to prod, but I have to wonder--what sort of behavioural modification involves a 9 year old wearing a pull-up? I don't know why I am concerned about this, because he seems perfectly fine, it just seems very unusual.. And I don't know if the two things are related, but I am certain I would have noticed if he was wearing one before. Parents are required to fill out a form letting us know of any medical conditions, and I double checked and all that is on his is the ADHD. Am I missing something here?

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  • Avant-Garde
    11 years ago

    No.. O_O Is there another teacher or person of authority you can talk to this about? I don't know, maybe you could call up a child behaviour therapist and tell him about this whole thing. Talk about the pull up and ask if that's normal.

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  • IveGotBallsOfSteal
    14 years ago

    Weird I have a friend couple that is doing the same with their 7 year old. I don't agree with it but they're logic seems somewhat sound. Basically, it's this:
    If the kid is going to act like a baby, they're going to treat him like a baby.
    It's sort of like using the kids sense of humility against him. This doesn't seem right to me, especially if the poor kids just has some ADHD issues. Like he doesn't already feel different enough... Hopefully the kids here wont be scared for life with this one...
    I would like to add that you as an educator DO have a place in raising the subject with the parents if you feel you should. Just do it delicately. Understand that they are more than likely NOT taking ANY pleasure in doing this to their child, but maybe they're yet to explore other options. If you feel like you should, bring it up to them. They trust you enough to educate their child, they should trust you enough to offer your opinion as well.

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    • IveGotBallsOfSteal
      14 years ago

      AND/OR maybe the kid's got some kind of medical issue?

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  • anonymouseuser123
    15 years ago

    I've heard about this-I think it called "theraplay" or something. Here's an article about it:
    http://www.toddlertime.com/dx/regression/bottle.htm
    Also, she could be trying him on a new medication that is causing bathroom urgency issues.

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  • [Old Memory]
    15 years ago

    I( dont see how a pull up could cure unless its super tight and doing something in that fashion you should have asked the mother. Are you the only sunday school teacher we have here

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    • tagline
      15 years ago

      No that's the thing, I don't really see what would happen, unless he has been having "problems" and they have humbled him, but the way she said it made it seem like she was actually "doing" something.. So I don't know. The pull-up didn't look tight, but I didn't really get a good look at it. If anything, it might have been a little bit big. Its also possible that it has nothing to do with the behavioural modification, but if that is the case, what is a 9 year old doing in a pull-up?

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  • alarm_clock
    14 years ago

    hey! I have the felling that maybe u made up the story..........but maybe not! and in this case i would say......
    Is perfectly normal my friend, we all are sick in the matter of sex, is just to much wrong information we got and keep on getting from our culture, the ppl around, the family and so on... the order in our DNA (especially in male) to fuck as much as we can & with most possible number of females because this way male can spread his seed over the galaxy. Just format your brains!!!!
    oh, and by the way the part of your story when u wanna rape that girl....i am afraid that this is not normal at all, well, unless u are a koala bear but koala bears do not know how to write don't they...... (even when then are wiser than most of us)......wake up...(time is almost.....up....)

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