Author Archives: carl

>Self Esteem

>We are hugely worried about M and his self-esteem. In a conversation this morning, he seemed resigned to being in naughty. To be fair, he is naughty an awful lot, and he knows that isn’t right. The standard medical solution is to give him more meds. I don’t like that. so we are working on alternative methods. I hate the idea of him being on restriction all of the time. Yesterday we lifted all restrictions and let him start over with a clean slate. For the most part it went pretty good. there were times, but a quick 10 or 20 minute restriction is better than an all day one. Tweet #fighting4answrs

>Green Aliens

>So just when I thought I couldn’t get any more frustrated… M has taken to hiding food in the couch. Last night we found a box of jerky sticks that came with the food bank truck this week. M repeatedly denied having any knowledge of how they got there. Since he has been on restriction, he is the only one who sits there. I asked him why he lies about the things he has taken. His response was “I don’t know”… feel like I should give Bill Cosby a call. I put the couch on my list of places to clean everyday since we don’t know what all he is going to hoard or when, but we do know where he puts the stuff. My thought is: How can anyone get excited about garbage? I just don’t understand the fascination with hiding empty cat food containers and other things in

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>Restriction

>So M has been on restriction for the last two days because he attacked his brother and sister. Bit his brother, and pulled sis’s hair, scratched, punched and kicked at her. My wife thought she would be nice and let him look at a book for a few minutes before bedtime. I went along with this willingly. Kind of a reward for the times he was good. He was told that he couldn’t fold the pages, or write in it with anything. He did both, even after being told three times not to. So now we are on restriction for a couple of more days. Restriction is rather boring for a child with OCD, ODD and ADHD. He can do nothing. He gets to sit on the couch. No television, no toys, no notebooks to write in, and no books to read. He just sits there. He can do homework

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