Just a follow up to my post last Saturday, in which I mentioned the upcoming second attempt to have Samuel in the "big church." We were able to stay in the church about 5 minutes longer than the previous Sunday! I am taking no chances, I cut our stay short well before Samuel gets too anxious. I am going with direct edible reinforcers for right now. I am expecting this to be a several year process. We'll just try to increase the time in the church each week. At some point I will go to using tokens before giving him a reinforcer, and we'll go from there! Samuel started screaming in church somewhere around 2 years ago. We have sat in the cry room since then. We have worked through him pushing other children around in there, and through him thinking that" screaming and fussing = a chance to leave and go for a walk in town"
Our family started going to church separately when my daughter was born, but for the past couple months now we have been going together. My husband takes the baby and our other 2 sons and we sit separately. Lately however, my husband and the baby and Samuel and I meet in the lobby area at some point during mass. The baby is getting at that fussy antsy age!
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