Aubrey is the center of our world when she comes to visit. We screen calls, prepare favorite foods and play what she wants. Every so often she has what we call a melt down. It is caused by Grandma deciding that we will not do what she wants. When this happens it is time to use all my counseling expertise to correct the problems. One of the things that works is giving Aubrey the set of markers that write on windows. I then give her the assignment to draw her anger. We don’t do this very often. We don’t have many meltdowns and we have other things that work as well. This week when I handed her the markers she asked if she had to draw her anger. Couldn’t she draw something else? For the next half hour she drew and drew. Although she didn’t draw anger she did draw weather. First a rainbow, then sunshine, clouds, lightening, tornados, and wind. Once she was finished she got a wet towl and cleaned the window of all unpleasantness. She left her rainbow.
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