Reverence Practice Time

Destroy has a hard time at church. His high level of hyperactivity coupled with the large volume of social opportunities is just too much for him to handle. Controlling his freak-outs, outbursts and overall wildness is hard for him to do, but it's also not on the top of his to-do list. Being in primary, I get to witness all of his misbehavior. Not only to do I feel responsible for it, but I especially feel bad for the other leaders that have to deal with it as well as the distraction that he is to the other kids.

OK I realize that I"m making him sound like some kind of freak-child. He's not and his behavior isn't as bad as some I've seen :) But it's still an issue.

I've been reading a book that talks about giving consequences that are relevant to the child's misbehavior. So instead of taking away the privilege of watching a movie after church for irreverence, which is what I used to do, and which has nothing to do with being irreverent, Destroy now gets to have a session of reverence practice at home. This is unfavorable to him because A) it's boring, and B) it takes time away from doing other much more desirable activities.

Here are the rules:
*The minimum time to practice is 20 minutes.
*He must sit (with his bottom on the chair) at the kitchen table. He cannot get up.
*He can only talk about church and gospel related topics.
*He must raise his hand when he wants to say something (church-related).
*The last five minutes he is not allowed to speak at all.

For any breech of these rules, a minute is added to the clock. We have only done reverence practice twice, but both times Destroy has just about doubled his 20 minutes for breaking rules.

The question is... how many times do we have to do this until it actually shows to be effective? I have my doubts that it will ever work with this child, but now that we've started, we can't back down!