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Originally Posted by jenniferag
We clipped her and I thought it would help that but now she will back away from me when it's time for bed and it takes me forever to get her... she never used to do this!!!
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Avoidance behaviours, once trained, can be hard to overcome. By being unsuccessful in getting her ("it takes forever") she has learned that she can delay cage-time by avoiding you.
This is an aspect of "punishment" (time outs and the like). By putting her in the cage, she has found that avoiding you is more rewarding. I do not recommend this type of training for parrots - they learn avoidance behaviours too easily since they have some natural paranoia.
As for screaming - follow the rational parrot advice:
http://www.rationalparrot.com/screaming.html
Personally I don't believe it is any harder or easier to train a clipped bird. I disagree with forcing a bird to do anything - rather the bird should be encouraged to do things. Encouragement often takes the form of treats.
Outside of the "bedtime" issue I would work on encouraging your bird to come to your hand. She probably associates the hand with "bad things" like going to the cage... So I would recommend attracting her to your hand throughout the day for "scritches" and for treats.
Good luck!