So we had Scott, our hired consultant, come and meet with Jason and me to get the feeling of our family dynamics. So what it came down to was Jason works a lot and never really sees the kids except for weekends (not by his choice of course) and Brinn's always strapped to a chair in the car as we drive Jaden everywhere. But there is playtime for her to interact with us.
So we verbally gave Scott a report as to our relationship with Brinn and our roles and parental methods and personality. Jason claimed to be more on the Hippie relaxed side of the spectrum and I was a hippie when it came to some things and a Nazi when it came to others. Uh oh, I'm a Nazi?! I guess I'm the one who's going to need therapy now.
So Scott came back and then watched Jason play with Brinn for 45 minutes and then watched me play with Brinn for 45 minutes. Oh, and he recorded it too so that he could watch it again and again and point out how bad of parents we really are.
Okay, who can play with their child normally while you are being recorded and critiqued. It was like "Okay Brinn, catch the ball. No, catch it. Please, just catch it I'm being graded here. Please! help me out. BRINN CATCH THE DANG BALL!!!" I don't think I got a good grade.
I would love to get a clip of how the play times went because it always consisted of Brinn running out of the room with us chasing her dragging her back to the activity she was supposedly playing with us. It seemed more like a game of chase. Hum....it reminds me of every Sunday in the foyer of the church.
So we haven't heard back from Scott yet as to his critiques on our recorded "play times" but I often wonder if he is waiting for a response from the Child Protective Services. Oh man, if only Brinn could catch that ball.
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lol, yeah my wife kinda had that initial same reaction to the interaction recording as you did.
Unfortunately her session didn't go well and after the tantrum and kicking & screaming, she burst out crying. We have a fantastic RDI therapist, and we both were able to talk her off the ledge, and at a followup a few days later to watch the video back she played us a 5 minute bracket from my wife's session which showed a beautiful interaction between her and our boy which was the objective of the exercise anyway. She diplomatically stopped the video before the meltdown occurred :D
I've briefly read through your other posts and saw that you applying ABA as well. How do you find that's going, especially with the conflicting philosophies of RDI and ABA?
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