Question
I have a question in regards to "Garden Kicking" and "Room Confinement".
Somehow in reading three of John Rosemond's books, my husband and I failed to understand that Garden Kicking didn't include Room Confinement. Thanks to a helpful answer to a question I posted recently (10 yo Garden Kick Not Working?) we now understand not to combine those.
So since we've already commenced Garden Kicking, we're going to stick with that minus the room confinement. We're wondering how that plays out though during the summer days, with siblings.
If I understand correctly, the idea behind Garden Kicking is to remove non-necessary privileges and toys/gadgets for a set period of time, while specific behaviors are addressed (and overcome). Those things/privileges are restored or earned back once they've successfully gone the set period of time successfully.
If my daughter is not confined to her room, then do we need to have rules in regards to her playing with her (6yo) sister, her sister's toys, etc? Do we ban access to the family bookcase? I'm trying to picture how this plays out day-to-day and what I'm picturing is a bored kiddo staring out a window OR getting into trouble because she's bored. Can you clarify what this looks like in real life for me?
