Firm and Visual Learner

        I have a child that that I'm learning about and two things I have learned so far is that she is a visual learner and you have to be firm with her because she hasn't had that in her lifetime. She also seems to need a routine but it has to be an ongoing things through everyone. It is fun learning about different children that way. Might be hard at times but it is worth it in the end.
        With this girl, I did one thing and with that one thing I have noticed something. Here is what I did and noticed. She was eating lunch really slow one day because she didn't want to take a nap. We have these bubble timers and I set one in front of her while she was eating. I told her that she had 4 mins to finish eating because that is how long the timer was and she had it all fast. I told her if she didn't eat it all but the end of the time, I would throw it away. I did this after a hour of letting her try to eat on her own with a lot of encouragement and reminders.
        I also have noticed with this girl that you have to talk to her softly and calmly before she gets really, really mad. She has a hard time telling people what is wrong so it seems like her fits get worse when we keep asking and pushing her to tell us. She is really smart for her age and love preschool activities. It is hard because we don't have those types of activities to do through out the day. She just gets bored easily.
        I also think that this girl is a hands on learner along with the visual part. She can't sit for long periods of time. She loves arts and crafts. I'm saying all of this and it might sound like it I'm giving her excuses for the way she acts but I'm not. I also understand that she can be stubborn and wanting to do things her own way but we have to look at it in a different way. That's what she has been doing all her life so far so that is what she is use to.
        I just feel really bad every time she cries because it is not just a plain cry. It is a screaming "I'm scared" cry while talking and yelling at staff to get off of her or let her go when we are trying to keep her from hitting or kicking us. As a group, we did not get started on the right foot with her from the start. She was spending after the day with preschool and the other half with big girls and she likes the big girls better now that she saw what they do and what they're life is like. If she never went over, she have never known and she would have been fine with preschool. This whole thing has taught me that it is important to listen to other people because they might know what they are talking about especially when they speak up about children that they have been with all day.
       She would be another one that I can say that pushed me to get a behavioral therapy degree or something close along those lines.