Week Four: Extinction!

The technique was extinction, but what was so powerful was that Brian and I were on the same wavelength, easy agreement about the appropriate response to her - man, sweet! Because what happened was that at dinner last night, Fiora (who was tired) started practically YELLING something over and over again, obviously more to get attention than to communicate something...I had no desire to reward that behavior, so Bri and I just maintained our conversation, no change in tone, it felt fabulous (not easy, but ever so worthy and RIGHT). And then I turned to Fiora during a moment of semi-quiet and asked her if she wanted to give the dogs her leftover soup, and voila, down she went, yelling forgotten.

Success!