Good, this is good. Let them know where there's a line there, at times, and often enough, to where... it isn't going to as you say - come as quite so much of a "shock," to their system. Especially when it is something of more significance. That they feel matters, and is important to them. Give them a taste of the temperature, and used to the setting, or settings. I remember one time when I first started working in teh group homes and I was a t a high behavior house for woemn. But the senior staff told me &b goes.. "If you don't put your foot down, tehy'er just oing to keep running all over you!" ;D

