u/Current-Caregiver704

I have a one year old golden retriever who is generally pretty calm. He sleeps in a crate at night. He understands that calm gets the door opened, so he'll sit calmly for me to open the door. However, once he's out, he starts bouncing, doing the puppy play bow (not sure what to call this), and just zooming around trying to get me to pet him. He'll do that for maybe 10 seconds, then he remembers his manners, and sits directly in front of my feet looking at me expectently. I wait until he's sitting to pet him, but the moment I do, he starts bouncing and zooming again. Then the pattern repeats. This goes on for a minute or two until I can manage to walk past him into another room.

I'm not sure how to train him out of this. He's not jumping ON me, just next to me, and I can hardly get out of the room as he keeps coming right under my feet. He's not a biter, but he'll get a little grabby if I simply stick my hands in my pocket and ignore him until he's calm. I know this isn't that big of a complaint relatively, but I want to train him to greet me calmly, and I'm tired of my feet getting stomped on!

I have a question - Can a kid have ADHD but not have issues focusing? Or is that a misnomer? I feel like my kid focuses well, but shows a lot of similar emotional dysregulation. He has two emotions - happy and angry. I don't even think he gets sad. Just mad. I'm considering therapy or something, but not really sure where to start.

My six year old is really bright and does well in public and with other people. He's homeschooled and is involved in a lot of other weekly activities. He actually focuses pretty well (with a lot of wiggling) and reads/writes a few grade levels ahead. He'll happily listen to me read aloud. He can read or build legos or draw pictures for an hour or more. He is non-stop moving/wiggling, and he's almost always making noise.

We go through some sort of meltdown daily, and sometimes multiple times a day. Usually, it begins with him being told not to do something (honestly, being told no for the same thing several times). He gets a five-minute time out in his bedroom. If he slams the door, kicks the wall, or otherwise isn't in there quietly having a timeout, he gets five more minutes. I use a timer.

He always, and I mean ALWAYS, slams the door, kicks the wall, or screams something rude as a way of getting the last word or talking back. Many times he continues this behavior until the five minute timeout is now 30-40 minutes. It goes like this:

SLAM

"Okay, I'm adding five more minutes."

"NOOOOO! This is so stupid! I'm not going to do this!!" SLAM!

"Please stop slamming the door. You'll get five more minutes when you do that."

SLAM

"Okay, I'm adding five more minutes." And on and on it goes.

Usually about 20 minutes into his long timeout he resigns himself to it and quiets down. Then he comes out as though nothing happened.

The few times that his timeout is only five minutes, he almost always goes directly back to the very thing that got him in trouble in the first place. It's like he's hyperfocused on the thing he wants to do and five minutes isn't enough time to break the focus.

The thing that gets me is that he gets in trouble for the SAME THINGS day in and day out and it will go on for months or years. It's like he never ever learns that slamming the door will get him five more minutes in time out despite this being explained very clearly and demonstrated.

Hi all. I work for a small company doing an assortment of administrative and training duties. We have a very technical product. As time has gone on, my job grew to absorb some duties that I didn't start with - writing the weekly newsletter, putting out training advertisements (usually a graphic and an email blast), maintaining and editing our website, drafting various documents, etc.

I really enjoy my job but I'm very aware that our graphics, newsletters, and website just aren't that great. I feel like I can see the problem, but I struggle to fix the problem. A lot of our content in these various mediums was written years ago and the people putting this stuff out there have simply been doing it over and over again the same way. We also want to draft some catalogs and put out other forms of marketing materials (postcards, flyers, etc.)

I've often thought that marketing or graphic design skills would help me with these tasks, but I don't want to go back to school for a whole new degree and I'm not even sure where I'd start. I was thinking about all this when I stumbled on copywriting. My question - is copywriting what I'm looking for? Would reading some books, maybe taking a couple of courses help me in my daily job? Or am I misunderstanding what you all do?

Just got the Sylight calendar to help manage the kids' and grandparents' schedules. Grandma wants her medical appointments on the calendar, but doesn't necessarily want it to show that she's getting a colonoscopy or whatever. I don't see that it's possible to set certain appointments to private when they show up on the main Skylight screen. Am I missing something or does anyone here have a suggestion for how to calendar those types of things? I want those appointments on our Skylight so we can coordinate rides and stuff, but the whole family doesn't need to know all the details.

I've got a current first and second grader. They're both doing Math-U-See (Beta) and it's been a slog. They both seem to have good understanding of it, but the older one is still counting on his fingers to answer every question. The younger one does better, but still doesn't like it. It's a ton of complaining every day and I end up walking them through it problem by problem just to get it done with. If left to themselves, they'll probably get it 70-80% correct? Most mistakes are simple counting errors.

I'm considering putting them both in Kumon this summer and switching to Beast Academy math. Neither one are exceptional at math, but I feel like we could have moved through this a lot faster than we have. My thinking with Kumon is that will hammer home the basics and give them (all of us) someone to be accountable to. With Beast Academy, I'm thinking it'll be more fun and interesting for them.

Does anyone have any other suggestions or experience with either of these two programs? Would Beast Academy be good for a kid who gets it, but isn't a math whiz? I'm open to other suggestions too. I feel sad that my kids are so young and already don't like math.