Personalized Poetry
Helping a person drop a bad habit and replace it with a more appropriate behavior is challenging at best, and autism can double the trouble since individuals with autism tend to resist change. One component of an effective strategy is to help the person become more aware of their bad habit. This is a poem was composed and personalized for a young lady who did not seem to be aware of the fact that she was standing too close to people and touching their hair or face. The poem pointed out the bad habit and introduced a 2-step plan for changing for the better.
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STRATEGIC POETRY.
There once was a girl named Fifi
who lived in the land of Déjà vu.
She lived in a cottage with her family and her cats:
Penelope, Jacques, and Curly Cue.
Fifi loved singing and reading and swimming
and cats and poetry and traveling, too.
She rode in cars and airplanes and kayaks and bikes,
exploring towns and country with exquisite views.
Fifi went to school each day with a yearning for learning.
She liked reading and recess and math the most
But she had a very bad habit each day
of touching her friends and standing too close.
Fifi touched her friend’s arms. Fifi touched her friend’s hair.
Fifi stood very close to talk. People did NOT like her being so near!
“What to do?” said her teacher and her mom and her dad.
“What to do?” said Penelope, Jacques, and Curly Cue.
“What to do?” said Fifi’s friend, Cathy Knoll.
All were wondering about the solution: “WHAT TO DO?!?”
Fifi’s friend Cathy Knoll said, Let’s try this every time
You stand or sit next to one of your friends:
Just reach your hand out with a smile and say, “Hi!”
Give a handshake, stay back, and FOLD YOUR HANDS!
So now Fifi is trying to change that annoying habit
Of getting too close and touching her friends.
Now Fifi reaches her hand out with a smile and says, “Hi!”
She gives a handshake, stays back, and FOLDS HER HANDS!
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