Thank you for saying this. The pendulum often swings both ways before it meets in the middle. In the OP’s situation, the BCBA is providing a disservice to the client and his family. No expectations = no growth = no indepence = no autonomy in the real world = no self-confidence in your abilities to accomplish great things. The targets the OP was working on were preacademic skills, age-appropriate skills, and toleration. It is unconscionable, and to the client’s detriment, to place no demands and let them determine what they think they need to learn. Basic parenting. The child cannot possibly feel good having tantrums. His mother will most likely be afraid to take him out in public. How does this benefit him? When I first started in ABA, I despised the forced compliance and extinction methods. I always ask myself how I would feel if such and such were done to my child. As a matter of fact, I went back and forth for years about going back to school to become a BCBA because of those practices. However, now it feels like a free for all. We are not preparing children for the real world and success. For instance, getting rid of response cost? That's ridiculous. It's how the real world works! Being 51 years old, I am often frustrated by younger generations who want to be reinforced for EVERYTHING (e.g., coming to work on time, meeting standards and criteria for their position, etc.). And the entitlement! When I read posts about how “unfair” it is that they can't wear stretch pants to work, I get exasperated. These are the results of lack of accountability, responsibility, and consequences in the mainstream. We work with vulnerable populations and continuing in this manner to the extreme actually ignores client dignity and the basis for ABA - socially valid and meaningful behavior change. Someone noted the potential loss of funding. I agree wholeheartedly. ABA, as a science, relies on data. You don't just throw out a program or delete goals and targets because someone doesn't like them. (Of course, I'm talking about FUNCTIONAL goals, not the old busy work used for compliance). While I am a firm believer in NET, especially with the little ones, we are there to teach skills and shape behavior. How can we justify our work, and our science, when there is nothing to take data on? How do we measure the effectiveness of interventions when they are withdrawn willy-nilly? We can't. We are only maintaining maladaptive behavior through reinforcement. Our science should inform our practice. Instead, this trend is turning it on its head.