In Reply to: I have a question
posted by Kendra on March 07, 2001 at 19:42:02:
:Hi Kendra, I am not sure that there is a "right" or a "wrong" way to handle this sort of situation but it sounds as though you did great! I had a similiar situation with little boy recently and I found that prioritising staying happy and calm as best as I could really helped me in then knowing what to do to best help him. Just by adopting this mind-set seemed to reasure him and lessen the need to physically manipulate but I did do this a little bit. I felt happy to hold his hand away a few times 'cos I knew that in doing so I was taking care of him. If you have built trust between the two of you then minimal physical manipulation when absolutely necessary will not harm your relationship. I think it is always a good idea to explain what you are going to do and why even if the child might not appear to understand. Just in case this helps anyone..My eldest "typical" child had a stonker of a nose bleed and we'd tried all the usual methods of trying to stop the flow of blood but nothing seemed to be helping. Then one of our volunteers suggested that he run the pulse points on his wrists under cold water and the nose bleed stopped straight away! All the best, Laura
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