390 | Room Wrecks: The Moment That Tests Every Child-Centered Play Therapist (A CCPT Guide for Understanding and Handling Them)

Play Therapy Podcast: A Master-Class in Child-Centered Play Therapy

In this episode, I walk through one of the most challenging—and inevitable—aspects of child-centered play therapy: room wrecks. I explain why these moments, as overwhelming and inconvenient as they can feel, are often deeply meaningful and necessary parts of a child's process. When a child is dumping shelves, throwing toys, or creating chaos, there is always a reason beneath the behavior. Rather than reacting with frustration or trying to control it, I emphasize the importance of shifting our perspective—seeing these moments as progress, not problems, and remaining grounded in unconditional acceptance.

I also address how to handle room wrecks practically and relationally—both with the child and with parents. This includes when (and when not) to set limits, how to prevent parents from misinterpreting what they see or hear, and how our words and tone communicate acceptance or judgment. Ultimately, these high-pressure moments reveal how anchored we truly are in the model. Room wrecks are not just about the child—they are a test of our ability to remain fully CCPT when it's hardest.

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Common References: Cochran, N., Nordling, W., & Cochran, J. (2010). Child-Centered Play Therapy (1st ed.). Wiley. VanFleet, R., Sywulak, A. E., & Sniscak, C. C. (2010). Child-centered play therapy. Guilford Press. Landreth, G.L. (2023). Play Therapy: The Art of the Relationship (4th ed.). Routledge. Landreth, G.L., & Bratton, S.C. (2019). Child-Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT): An Evidence-Based 10-Session Filial Therapy Model (2nd ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315537948 Benedict, Helen. Themes in Play Therapy. Used with permission to Heartland Play Therapy Institute.

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You're listening to the Play Therapy Podcast with Dr. Brenna Hicks,

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your source for centered and focused play therapy coaching.

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Hi,

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I'm Dr. Brenna Hicks,

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The Kid Counselor.

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This is the Play Therapy Podcast where you get

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a master class in child-centered play therapy

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and practical support and application for your

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work with children and their families.

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In today's episode,

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we are going to talk through

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room wrecks.

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Everything

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that we absolutely love about CCPT in one episode.

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All right,

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I digress.

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So,

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we

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inevitably

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have kids that are going to wreck our rooms.

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That are going to

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swipe shelves,

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that are going to take every single thing

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down to

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the cards and pieces in your board games

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and chuck them all over God's creation.

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And it looks like a bomb went off in your playroom when they're done.

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there are certain circumstances

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in which parents end up seeing it.

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So,

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based on the configuration of your office,

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based on where the lobby is in relation to your playroom,

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based on,

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there's just different things that can

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parent seeing your playroom.

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sound is a whole other issue related but separate

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because sometimes parents hear the room wreck,

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even if they don't see it.

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They hear

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crashes and

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booms and things sounding like they're breaking and things hitting walls.

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so sometimes

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they experience a room wreck without necessarily seeing the evidence of it,

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and they're going to ask questions about what they heard,

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but especially if they hear it.

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It can cause a lot of issues,

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and I want to talk through that.

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And so not only do we

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have to safeguard

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kids from parents'

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awareness of it,

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sight of it,

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and comments therein.

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But also how we're going to explain

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room wrecks to parents,

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articulation of why it's necessary,

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so on and so forth.

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whole episode on all things room wreck,

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specifically related to parents

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and maybe a little bit for ourselves because

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Ain't nobody got time for that.

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Let me tell you.

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There's,

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there is not one of us

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that's like,

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you know,

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it just doesn't bother me at all when someone room wrecks.

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You,

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you,

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you can't help

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but go,

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oh my word,

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are you serious?

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I have to clean all that up.

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Oh my gosh,

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I'm gonna have 10 minutes to try to take care of that entire thing,

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and you just can't.

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there's,

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there's a small part of us,

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as accepting as we are,

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as unconditional as we can be,

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there's always a part of us that even

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Deep inside it's like,

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oh no,

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even if it doesn't cause any kind of fracture,

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any kind of resentment,

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we might be totally OK with it.

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oh my gosh,

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please stop.

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I want to just make sure that we have a handle on room wrecks because

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you choose to be CCPT or

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sometimes when CCPT chooses you,

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you don't have a say.

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I actually had a therapist

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that

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was in the

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forum in the Collective a while back posting about a kid that room wrecks

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made the comment.

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I just,

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I can't

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tolerate room wrecks.

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hopefully,

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gently and lovingly,

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I,

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I don't know how it came off.

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You can't read tone in text,

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it,

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it might not have come off as lovingly as gently as I meant it,

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There's also accountability and confrontation that's required.

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it may be a balance of both sides of that.

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I'm paraphrasing,

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but I basically said you don't get the luxury of

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saying that you can't tolerate room wreck as a CCPT.

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If you can't tolerate room wrecks,

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then you can't be CCPT.

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It's just that simple.

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I'm not saying you have to like them because we don't.

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I'm not saying you have to

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be filled with glee as a kid is literally ruining every single thing in your room

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and all the time that you spent making sure that every miniature was facing forward,

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and they're all lined up exactly where you would like them to be and they're.

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According to their purpose,

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and all of your

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shelves are,

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I,

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I know y'all.

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I,

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not all of you are like that,

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but some of you are,

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and you're nodding your head right now because that is you.

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I'm talking directly to you.

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Yes,

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I am.

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So y'all

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that made every single thing in your playroom.

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Square and plumb

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and organized and structured and just delightful aesthetically to look at.

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And then a kid comes in and every single thing in your room ends up on the floor

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in a topsy-turvy heap.

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There is nothing about that that is pleasant.

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But choosing to be CCPT.

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And embodying the principles of CCPT.

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Being CCPT.

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It comes with the territory

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that you're going to have to deal with room wrecks.

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And you don't have the ability

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to resent it.

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You don't have the ability to lament it.

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You don't have the ability to say,

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I can't tolerate this.

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You have to.

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let's dive in,

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now that you've had your

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pep talk

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to get us ready for this lovely topic.

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All right.

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Why does a kid room wreck?

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#the why matters.

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Why?

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Why does a child come in and room wreck?

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There's always always a reason.

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And oh my word,

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here,

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this is probably not loving and gentle.

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Don't you dare.

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Not loving and gentle at all.

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Don't you dare.

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Assume

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That a child is being manipulative,

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that a child is trying to irritate you,

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that a child

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knows what they're doing,

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and they're just purposefully.

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That's what all the other adults in that kid's life says.

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You're not going to be the one that says that.

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So we are not pathologizing,

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we are not accusing,

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we are not blaming,

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that there is none of that.

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The why

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subconscious,

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the why is deep.

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Is the child testing boundaries?

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Is the child testing relationship.

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Is the child resisting

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you or therapy or the work that they need to do?

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Is the child attention seeking?

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Is the child power and control hungry?

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Is the child an anxious wreck,

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and they are just coming untethered

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because of how overwhelming this process is,

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and they need to show you

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how big their feelings are.

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The why matters always.

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We don't always know it.

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We can't in a moment as a kid is trashing our room.

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We can't necessarily pinpoint,

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oh,

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I suspect that this is because of such and such.

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Sometimes we can.

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We don't need to know,

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but we need to think about it and consider.

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what that does for us

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is instead of going,

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oh my gosh,

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this kid just purposefully blah blah blah.

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We shift from that to,

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this is therapeutically necessary.

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There's value in this

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There's,

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there's a why.

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There's something going on here.

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This is actually a positive thing.

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This kid needs to do this.

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This will be a means to an end.

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You reframe it,

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you shift your thinking from the negative to the positive,

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and you see it in light of what it is,

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which is progress.

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Not every kid has to room wreck.

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So you can have progress without a room wreck

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on certain cases,

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but certain cases,

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a room wreck is

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the path through which the child starts to heal.

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So we have to be careful with the way that we

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receive it,

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and we always are considering the why.

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Here's another factor

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We set limits when needed.

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room wrecking is not a necessary limit.

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Let me say that again,

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cause some of you,

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your mouths are on the floor right now.

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So,

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pick your jaw back up.

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Sometimes we need to set limits on certain behaviors.

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Because

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they're needed when they're needed.

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But

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A room wreck is not a necessary limit.

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Why?

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Because

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if you're safe,

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if the child's safe and things aren't getting broken.

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We're not meeting criteria for a limit.

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We have to build tolerance and acceptance.

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And

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contentment.

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When kids come in

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and throw things around the room.

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It's something that gets easier with time,

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I would say.

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The first few times a kid wrecked my room,

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I think I was a little more unnerved than I ever get now.

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But all the while,

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you recognize it for what it is,

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it's needed work.

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So,

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we're not going to set a limit on a room wreck.

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Now,

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I have said in other episodes,

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if a kid trashes your room.

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Like 5 times in a row.

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You can set a limit on.

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Them cleaning up with you.

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So

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You really like to throw everything on the floor.

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But then I don't have time to get ready for my next kid to play with.

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So if you choose to put things on the floor without using them or playing with them,

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you choose to help me clean up at the end of the session.

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Very small limit,

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very subtle limit.

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Notice we're not setting a limit on

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the toys are not for throwing on the ground.

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It's,

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you choose to help me clean up.

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That is only if you have many,

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many,

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many weeks in a row

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of a child room wrecking.

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And it's for the flow and preservation of your schedule.

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It's not about you don't want the kid to

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throw stuff all over your room.

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It's,

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I can't have.

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So if you,

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if your room wrecker is at 2 o'clock.

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You're 3 o'clock.

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5 weeks in a row comes in to.

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Uh,

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how do you even describe,

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uh,

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sort of cleaned up room wreck?

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Um,

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a marginally prepared for that kid playroom,

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like

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stuff shoved in the corner,

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stuff in piles against the wall,

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like hardly anything on the shelves,

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only a few things have been put back.

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Like,

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you,

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you are now doing a disservice and it's detrimental to the 3 o'clock kid.

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5 weeks in a row.

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Couple weeks,

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you can just say,

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oh,

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I didn't have time to clean up.

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There were so many toys out,

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so I,

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I didn't have time to clean up.

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Well,

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you don't want that to be that 3 o'clock's

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reality week after week after week after week.

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So

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you would set

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an if then limit

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on that behavior.

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OK,

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let's talk about something else.

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If a parent were to ever see.

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A room wreck

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You try as much as humanly possible to prevent that,

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by the way.

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You do not want a parent to get a glimpse into a room that looks absolutely destroyed.

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Now we know it's not destroyed,

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but a parent doesn't know that.

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A parent gets embarrassed,

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they get defensive,

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they go into discipline mode,

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they go into correction mode.

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They go into teach a lesson mode.

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They go into questioning mode.

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It,

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it puts them all up in their heads and they just

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need answers and they want to do something about it.

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And none of that is CCPT aligned.

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None of that is relationship preserving.

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So,

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as much as you can,

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try to make sure that a parent does not ever see.

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A very messy room

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if they do.

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You stop them before it even begins.

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Because

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as soon as they see it,

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they're going to have an immediate reaction.

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They're going to gasp,

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they're going to put their hand over their face.

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They're gonna say,

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oh my gosh,

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they're going to start,

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what did you do?

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Whatever the reaction that immediately wants to erupt.

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You're going to shut it down instantaneously.

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Because what we're doing

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is we are implying.

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This is normal.

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This is appropriate,

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and we're reassuring the parent that they do not need to be concerned.

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We're also

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not ever going to talk about a child in front of a child.

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We're not going to address a child's behavior with the parent.

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In front of the child

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And parents are want to do it.

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So

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Why,

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why didn't you tell them they couldn't do that?

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Oh my,

389
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well,

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they're gonna have to stay and help you clean up.

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Well,

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I mean,

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I'll come in and help pick it up.

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The stuff that

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they suggest as solutions.

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It's laughable,

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really,

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but

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we're preserving relationship at all costs.

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The relationship we have with that child,

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the

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Environment we've created where they have permission,

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where they have freedom,

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where they have autonomy,

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where they get to be in charge.

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Giving a child

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control and saying you get to be in charge,

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guess what comes with that,

409
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y'all.

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Their luxury of room wrecking if they choose and need to do so.

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If we didn't want our kids to be in charge,

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we would give them worksheets,

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we would give them directives,

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we would tell them to do deep breathing exercises,

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we would make feelings wheels with them.

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When we say you get to decide what we do and you're in charge and you can

417
00:14:04,630 --> 00:14:07,119
choose to play with all the toys in most of the ways that you want to.

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When they choose or need

419
00:14:11,380 --> 00:14:12,219
to room wreck,

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that's part of the deal.

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Our response

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to a parent.

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00:14:20,799 --> 00:14:24,340
is going to give the parent cues as to what their response should be.

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So if we sigh,

425
00:14:26,679 --> 00:14:27,679
if we roll our eyes,

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if we go,

427
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Yeah

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That communicates that we're not OK with it either.

429
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And that breeds.

430
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Issues

431
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So our neutrality,

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our acceptance,

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our smile,

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00:14:44,010 --> 00:14:44,809
our tone of voice,

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all of it.

436
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Yeah,

437
00:14:47,219 --> 00:14:49,479
we had a lot of stuff going on in there today.

438
00:14:49,559 --> 00:14:51,539
We played with a lot of things today.

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That's the response.

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And you shut down any judgment,

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any criticism,

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any confusion from the parent.

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Oh my gosh.

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Oh,

445
00:15:03,020 --> 00:15:04,719
we played with a lot of things today.

446
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That's how it goes.

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We're making it clear

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I'm not reacting.

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You shouldn't either.

450
00:15:13,419 --> 00:15:15,690
And be very thoughtful

451
00:15:16,270 --> 00:15:18,340
about the things that you say to a parent,

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the words that you use.

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Because I've said them on this podcast because you all are clinicians

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and

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we know how much it sucks to have a kid come in and room wreck,

456
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OK?

457
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So,

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amongst our circles with

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CCPTs,

460
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you can say,

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The kid destroyed my room.

462
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The kid trashed my room.

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It was a disaster.

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OK,

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those are

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understandable terms because we all know what it's like.

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We would never say that stuff to a parent.

468
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And here's what happens.

469
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We go out

470
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and we say,

471
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Oh man,

472
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I'm sorry I'm running late.

473
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The last kid that I played with absolutely destroyed my room.

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There's an implication there y'all.

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An implication we would never want to give.

476
00:16:05,799 --> 00:16:06,780
Or we'll say,

477
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oh,

478
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my room was absolutely trashed.

479
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In front of a parent,

480
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in front of a child.

481
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That's not unconditional acceptance.

482
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So we might say,

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There were a lot of toys to clean up.

484
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Or

485
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I had a lot of stuff to put away.

486
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But

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those are neutral sentences.

488
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Your words matter.

489
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CCPT is wordsmithery,

490
00:16:36,429 --> 00:16:37,659
if you haven't figured that out yet.

491
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So,

492
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one of my coaching folks,

493
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Jonathan,

494
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told me that I need to do

495
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a conference on the word smithery of CCPT.

496
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I'm,

497
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I'm,

498
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I'm pondering that

499
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notion,

500
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but

501
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You,

502
00:16:50,150 --> 00:16:53,570
you have to learn how to say things and that your words matter

503
00:16:53,830 --> 00:16:55,090
and your word choice

504
00:16:55,469 --> 00:16:56,530
makes a huge difference.

505
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So keep that in mind when you're thinking about room wrecks as well.

506
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And then finally,

507
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When

508
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a child is actively

509
00:17:06,719 --> 00:17:07,760
swiping shelves,

510
00:17:08,050 --> 00:17:09,709
throwing everything on the floor,

511
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making as much of a mess as they possibly can.

512
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And be mindful that a room wreck is different than

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mess-making play,

514
00:17:19,780 --> 00:17:22,618
but sometimes mess-making play can end up in a room wreck.

515
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So,

516
00:17:23,270 --> 00:17:26,140
know that there's some similarities and crossover between those two.

517
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But when that's going on,

518
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When you're watching more and more and more and more

519
00:17:32,739 --> 00:17:34,619
accumulate on the floor of your playroom.

520
00:17:35,300 --> 00:17:37,339
And you know how long it's going to take you,

521
00:17:37,869 --> 00:17:38,880
and you know

522
00:17:39,020 --> 00:17:40,239
the amount of work

523
00:17:40,540 --> 00:17:41,359
and effort

524
00:17:41,550 --> 00:17:43,719
that's going to require to reset everything.

525
00:17:45,469 --> 00:17:46,390
That's when

526
00:17:47,609 --> 00:17:48,880
Your feet are held to the fire.

527
00:17:49,790 --> 00:17:51,670
And that's when you find out what you're made of.

528
00:17:53,439 --> 00:17:53,780
Because

529
00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:55,260
we crumble.

530
00:17:56,109 --> 00:17:56,599
Under pressure.

531
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We are on

532
00:18:00,689 --> 00:18:02,430
the Summit Framework

533
00:18:02,750 --> 00:18:03,709
at the level

534
00:18:03,810 --> 00:18:06,310
to which we can sustain the skills

535
00:18:06,650 --> 00:18:07,969
in any circumstance.

536
00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:12,219
So as you're sitting there watching

537
00:18:12,599 --> 00:18:13,359
what's happening.

538
00:18:14,790 --> 00:18:17,229
Is the pressure causing you to drift?

539
00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:19,339
Is the pressure causing you to resent?

540
00:18:19,630 --> 00:18:22,119
Is the pressure causing you to get all up in your head

541
00:18:22,349 --> 00:18:24,069
and you're not even paying attention anymore

542
00:18:24,069 --> 00:18:25,989
because you spent 5 minutes figuring out how

543
00:18:25,989 --> 00:18:28,589
in the world you're going to get all that cleaned up before your next kid?

544
00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:31,339
When

545
00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:33,800
pressure is introduced,

546
00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:35,199
that's what you're made of.

547
00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:37,800
Are you fully CCPT

548
00:18:37,959 --> 00:18:39,680
when a kid is room wrecking?

549
00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:43,640
Do you still unconditionally accept that kid?

550
00:18:43,729 --> 00:18:44,880
Do you still like that kid?

551
00:18:45,010 --> 00:18:46,859
Do you see that as meaningful work?

552
00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:51,319
Do you see the why behind it and you celebrate internally that the child

553
00:18:51,319 --> 00:18:55,260
is finally tackling some really big stuff that they need to work through?

554
00:18:56,280 --> 00:18:57,520
Are you seeing it as normal?

555
00:18:57,599 --> 00:18:59,040
Are you seeing it as a means to an end?

556
00:18:59,119 --> 00:18:59,520
Are you going,

557
00:18:59,640 --> 00:18:59,920
yep,

558
00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:02,479
this is what happens sometimes in CCPT?

559
00:19:03,900 --> 00:19:04,939
That's the test.

560
00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:07,790
Cause when you have easy sessions,

561
00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:08,900
let me assure you.

562
00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:12,839
You are not being tested and you don't know what you're made of.

563
00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:16,119
You find out what you're made of

564
00:19:16,319 --> 00:19:17,420
when things get hard.

565
00:19:18,079 --> 00:19:19,160
That's true of everything in life.

566
00:19:19,239 --> 00:19:19,400
That's,

567
00:19:19,439 --> 00:19:20,819
that's not a CCPT

568
00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:22,260
helpful tip.

569
00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:22,439
That,

570
00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:23,979
that's a helpful tip for life.

571
00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:27,000
You go do a,

572
00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:28,099
a lame workout

573
00:19:28,719 --> 00:19:29,939
and you're all proud of yourself.

574
00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:30,439
You're like,

575
00:19:30,650 --> 00:19:31,160
oh man,

576
00:19:31,280 --> 00:19:33,310
I went to the gym and I did like 30 minutes

577
00:19:33,310 --> 00:19:35,339
and you basically did nothing the whole time you were there.

578
00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:37,760
You flexed in front of the mirrors and you're like,

579
00:19:37,829 --> 00:19:37,920
yeah,

580
00:19:37,959 --> 00:19:38,750
I'm looking pretty good.

581
00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:39,869
That's not a workout,

582
00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:40,420
OK?

583
00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:42,359
That's not when you're tested.

584
00:19:44,910 --> 00:19:48,180
You have to be put into difficult situations

585
00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:49,579
to realize

586
00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:52,000
how CCPT you truly are,

587
00:19:52,239 --> 00:19:52,920
and a room wreck,

588
00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:53,250
I don't know,

589
00:19:53,359 --> 00:19:55,170
I don't really know of any other scenario

590
00:19:55,319 --> 00:19:57,319
except maybe when a kid is physically injuring you.

591
00:19:57,420 --> 00:19:59,300
I would say those are the two hardest moments

592
00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:01,400
when you've got a kid that is wrecking your room and

593
00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:03,540
when you have a kid that is consistently hurting you.

594
00:20:04,550 --> 00:20:05,650
That's when you realize.

595
00:20:06,780 --> 00:20:08,119
Where your skills are,

596
00:20:08,619 --> 00:20:09,900
and you're tested.

597
00:20:11,030 --> 00:20:13,890
And my hope and prayer is that we prove

598
00:20:14,109 --> 00:20:16,780
to be fully CCPT even in those moments,

599
00:20:16,829 --> 00:20:18,050
or at least we're getting there.

600
00:20:19,719 --> 00:20:21,339
So room wrecks are necessary.

601
00:20:21,550 --> 00:20:23,060
Room wrecks are powerful.

602
00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:24,979
We do not want parents

603
00:20:25,119 --> 00:20:25,579
to

604
00:20:25,760 --> 00:20:27,709
insert themselves into that process.

605
00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:31,540
We need to be careful with the way that we say things about it to parents.

606
00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:35,739
And we have to be careful of the way that we internalize it ourselves.

607
00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:38,780
Because there is no escaping them.

608
00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:39,560
I mean,

609
00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:41,300
it is certainly my,

610
00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:42,859
my wish for you all.

611
00:20:43,489 --> 00:20:45,219
My wish for you.

612
00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:47,040
Every time I say stuff,

613
00:20:47,130 --> 00:20:48,000
songs pop into my head.

614
00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:49,819
It's like my superpower and curse.

615
00:20:50,219 --> 00:20:50,520
OK,

616
00:20:50,599 --> 00:20:51,060
so

617
00:20:51,359 --> 00:20:52,579
my wish for you

618
00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:54,189
is that

619
00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:56,420
you don't have room wrecks very often,

620
00:20:56,760 --> 00:20:58,140
and those are outliers.

621
00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:00,030
But when you get them,

622
00:21:00,199 --> 00:21:02,589
I hope that you come back to this episode and you're like,

623
00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:03,339
OK,

624
00:21:03,839 --> 00:21:04,560
I know what to do.

625
00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:05,359
I can handle this.

626
00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:06,380
It's gonna be fine.

627
00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:07,199
And look,

628
00:21:07,239 --> 00:21:08,300
at the end of the day,

629
00:21:08,619 --> 00:21:09,380
when a kid

630
00:21:09,719 --> 00:21:11,739
has put every single thing that you own on the floor,

631
00:21:12,709 --> 00:21:14,689
You learn how to clean up fast.

632
00:21:15,069 --> 00:21:17,790
If you haven't mastered the art of resetting a playroom quickly,

633
00:21:17,869 --> 00:21:18,910
you need to work on that.

634
00:21:19,469 --> 00:21:21,170
You get all the big stuff put back.

635
00:21:22,150 --> 00:21:26,579
You put all the little stuff in a bin in a box and you slide it over against the wall

636
00:21:27,079 --> 00:21:28,640
and you put your next kid in the room.

637
00:21:30,670 --> 00:21:30,829
You,

638
00:21:30,910 --> 00:21:33,390
you don't spend hours and hours when you

639
00:21:33,390 --> 00:21:35,800
don't have them trying to sort everything out.

640
00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:37,069
All the little things,

641
00:21:37,189 --> 00:21:40,880
they get scooped up into one big box or bin and they get shoved against the wall,

642
00:21:40,989 --> 00:21:42,689
and all the big stuff gets put back.

643
00:21:44,229 --> 00:21:44,969
And then you say,

644
00:21:45,390 --> 00:21:47,060
if you're looking for something and you can't find it,

645
00:21:47,069 --> 00:21:48,569
it's probably over there in that box.

646
00:21:48,989 --> 00:21:51,430
And then the next kid comes in and if it's a one-off thing,

647
00:21:51,550 --> 00:21:52,329
no one cares.

648
00:21:53,390 --> 00:21:54,469
Don't let that stress you out.

649
00:21:54,550 --> 00:21:55,270
It should not.

650
00:21:56,390 --> 00:21:57,560
So I hope that encourages you.

651
00:21:57,680 --> 00:21:58,520
I hope that

652
00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:01,949
you at least have some solid foundation under your,

653
00:22:02,319 --> 00:22:03,040
your plan

654
00:22:03,319 --> 00:22:03,939
because

655
00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:05,500
it's not an if but when,

656
00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:08,180
and we need to be ready for those because

657
00:22:08,319 --> 00:22:09,709
the more ready we are,

658
00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:12,060
the more we will handle it in an adherent way,

659
00:22:12,079 --> 00:22:13,140
and that's always the goal.

660
00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:14,199
I love y'all.

661
00:22:14,319 --> 00:22:14,979
Hope you have a great week.

662
00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:15,839
We'll talk again soon.

663
00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:16,239
Bye.

664
00:22:17,300 --> 00:22:21,089
Thank you for listening to the Play Therapy Podcast with Dr. Brenna Hicks.

665
00:22:21,339 --> 00:22:23,260
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666
00:22:23,420 --> 00:22:28,180
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