Are there areas of your house you don't let your kids go?
I'm having trouble aligning with my husband on household boundaries with our toddlers. We have no attic. We have an autistic teen whose room is on the top floor. His room is very spacious and stores Xmas decorations and out of season clothes.
To me, it seems like a space that can easily be boundaried off from the younger kids. My husband however, is inconsistent. So the kids get confused about whether they're actually allowed up there or not. They go and wake him up sometimes just to get a toy that doesn't belong to them. He seems to think it's a rule for the sake of a rule, but I find it convenient to have a place I can hide things from them - and I find it stressful to not have one.
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Yeah. We have a guest room that has all the extra toys. And our bedroom sometimes. But usually they can go anywhere else.
I’d explain it to him that autistic people think things a certain way and we don’t want to get in their way so the kids don’t need to be in there. There’s no point. None of their stuff is there so it can be a safe space for the teen
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