Tips for Working with a Child Who Enjoys Change

Friends, Family and Home

• Encourage her to keep old friendships, as well as making new ones.
• Change family jobs around often.
• Try sitting at different places at dinner and varying routines.
• Make sure family members watch him carefully in new places and on shopping trips.

Learning, Childcare and School

• Ask the teacher to observe her for boredom and offer her new challenges often.
• Offer him different times and places to play and do activities when he seems tired of the same thing.
• Provide lots of chances to explore new things of interest to her through books, trips to museums, or nonfiction television shows.
• Alert the teacher that he needs occasional changes in routine and new experiences to learn best.

Activities and Television

• Provide field trips and activities to new places and opportunities to do new things.
• Watch travel shows, history or science programs on TV and talk about them.
• Give her new craft materials, kits and projects.
• Move babies from crib to floor and to different rooms often.

Guidance and Discipline

• Watch him carefully in crowds or in potentially dangerous situations.
• Change her chores and rewards often, and suggest to her new ways to complete routine tasks.
• Change his bedtime and meal routines occasionally - one night she can sleep in a sleeping bag or have dinner on the floor like a picnic.
• Give choices for required routines, such as which pajamas to wear and different bed sheets for bedtime.