(06-29-2012, 09:41 AM)chark Wrote: Thanks for responding. I love the idea of the mini tramp! I have talked to the OT about what can work at home, but I haven't found anything that seems to be able to distract him from me, or something he likes better. But he does love tramps so that may really work. Thanks also for the advice about the communication. We definitely need to find dialogue that works for both of us. Its a long road ahead of us!

This is a bit of tough love comes in. When we first got the mini trampoline, my son was very resistant to it. I would take him by the hand, walk him to it and say "Bounce!" Sometimes we had to set a timer to get him to do more than 2 bounces. Now he recognizes how it helps him, then he hated doing it. I had to step up as a parent and insist, just like I have to do with many of his other OT exercises. Therapy, and discipline, aren't fun, but our kids need them and we have to be the ones to make sure they happen.

What I'm getting at is it doesn't matter if your son likes the alternatives to grabbing you; for his sake and yours he needs to do them. Eventually you two will reach the point where he is able to see the benefit of these things and will direct himself to them. But at 6 yrs old, he's got a long way to go.