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Evening Day 3

Well it appears that we have two levels of behaviour. That which he exhibits during the day when it is one on one, and that which is displayed in the evenings when everyone is home. Tonight he was all about the word no. Everything we said, “no” was the response, didn’t matter if we were talking to him or not. 20 minutes of solitude under a blanket for that and other inappropriate behaviour and things were fine. The most pressing behaviour is that he doesn’t want to listen. Just a matter of changing or adapting our parenting style, if this is the only issue that we have, we are rocking. However I feel that we are still in the honeymoon phase after his return from the residential facility. Only time will tell if that is an accurate portrayal of the situation and his behaviour. On another front, the clozaril affected

Day 3 ~ Under the Weather

He must not be feeling good today. Here it is after 10am and he is still wanting to sleep. He is fighting a sinus infection, but that has been going on for a couple of days. Blood draw at 11:45 again. Then we are going on an outing to the hardware store to price out a new dryer since ours died. Having a family of seven means that our appliances get a lot of use. After lunch, school work time. 🙂 He does it without complaint. I am so impressed. We are still working on getting another meeting setup with his IEP team so that he can return to public school, but so far this seems to be working. Only time will tell, as I imagine he will get tired of seeing my face all of the time. A shout out to my friend Rob Gorski and his family over

IEP 1 of 3

Well, we have one IEP done for this year. Things are going well for our middle son, despite the autism. He is developing friendships with his peers, flirts with the girls, had an issue with electricity and gotten detention twice. He is high functioning in reading, comprehension, processing, and reasoning. He has issues with verbal communication. He reads at a level that they have a hard time measuring and comprehends at the same level. He is in the 7th grade. The teachers have issue with him just knowing the answer, they need him to write out how he comes to the answer, this is most prevalent in science and mathematics. In ag class, he can identify every tool, every seed, and can tell out of 10 or 15 different tools, which one is missing and what they are all used for. Considering we don’t live on a farm this is