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Tips And Tricks For Almost All Occasions
By: Renata Bursten, Dragonfly Staff

If neccessity is the mother of invention, then these parents are certainly the midwives. From stopping a child from getting into a dirty diaper to getting a child to accept wearing an eye-patch, this site has an answer to the really tough questions.

Here is just one of the ingenious tips parents of children with special needs have added to this great page of general tips. Enjoy!

As a preschooler (and well on into elementary school), my ADHD/ODD son had a very difficult time "remembering" to get dressed. Repeated reminders merely broke his concentration on whatever he was pondering or doing instead of getting dressed. Because he was a competitive child, we decided to make a race, either against me or his father, to see who could dress fastest, or for a "personal best." From then on, getting him motivated to dress was as simple as getting out a stopwatch. This same child couldn't stand the tactile sensation of shirt labels against his neck, or seams in socks against his toes. Cutting labels out of shirts was easy, but I obviously couldn't cut his socks open at the toes or they would no longer be socks. A friend suggested turning the socks inside out... an incredibly simple solution to what had been a very big problem.
-C.R., Wyndmoor, PA

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