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If escape is holding the pattern in place, the plan closes off the escape a step at a time. If what waits at home is holding it, the plan moves those good things to the other side of the effort.
Most stuck cases are stuck because only one half was addressed. A careful ladder of steps does very little while the afternoon at home is still the…
If a child is at home, run the day as though it were a school day. Same wake time, same breakfast, bag packed, work starting when lessons would have started.
Ten hours of sleep followed by a slow morning turns home into somewhere far nicer than school, and a body clock that drifts later makes the next…
When a step does not happen, cut the next one down without any speech about it. Smaller, and carry on.
Progress here is often slower than anyone would like, and that is the method working rather than the method failing. What does real damage is a run…
Panic rarely comes out of nowhere. It usually lands on a body already short of sleep, running on coffee and eating at odd hours, so whatever tipped it over did not have far to push.
This is not a telling off about your habits. It is that the same argument or deadline arrives very differently at a rested body than at a wrecked…
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Nobody puts a child who cannot swim into the shallow end and calls it teaching. Before anyone goes near the thing they dread, they need something to do with their body and their head when the fear arrives.
It takes only one overwhelming attempt to teach the opposite of what was intended: that it really was too much, and that the adults will push anyway.…