ABSTRACT
The third thematic group consists of five letters that focus on helping parents to maintain the consistency and regularity of daily QST treatment that lead to the best results for their child. The authors know well the time periods and problems that can cause a parent’s focus to wane. So, the first letter focuses on making it through the ‘dog days’, that period where progress may feel plateaued or stalled, but a period where research demonstrates that continued regularity brings even greater progress. Ideas are offered on how to sustain consistency, followed by a more detailed list of the four risk periods for dropping the routine, together with suggestions for how to address each of those risk periods in order to sustain progress. A letter from a Master Trainer offers tips on how to stay the course, followed by a letter from a skeptical mother who re-discovered her drive and consistency. A final letter focuses on how dietary changes can help to address underlying issues that contribute to ‘hyperactivity’, including ideas on how to make helpful changes.
