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Promo, Episode 5: Championing Autonomy: the ACT Framework
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Mary O’Brien, BCBA & Founder, Jersey Behavior. Be sure to subscribe. Episode drops January 31st.
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Proactive Behavior in Girls
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And so I see sometimes girls like doing everything possible that they might be asked to do ahead of time. Just to prevent the possibility that someone will tell them what
Anxiety-driven Compliance in PDA Children
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to do. A PDA child who is fawning might be having a really difficult experience. They might be feeling and anxious and that everything they do is to avoid anxiety, not to to access the things that they enjoy. They might appear to be thriving, not having any behavioral issues, very, very compliant, doing great academically.
Reframing Success for Children with Self-Advocacy
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Yeah, it's a huge mindset shift for parents, you know, reframing what we think of as success for our kids, asking why I'm being asked to do something. protesting when I don't want to do it at at different ages, at different
Prioritizing Self-Advocacy Over Compliance
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levels. Those are important self-advocacy skills that we want our kids to have. We do not want to raise children who are, from the very beginning, compliant with anything anyone tells them, that they are not going to be safe in the world as adults.