Category Archives: behaivor issues

An attitude for breakfast?

Full on attitude from David this morning.  He sees his potential placement in a residential facility as a badge of honor. I wish that he could understand how hard he is on the rest of the family.  Especially when he talks about how much he can’t wait to go to residential because they will let him do things that we can’t. Frustrating to his mother and I. While it is a relief to the family stress level that he is in a center, it is never a happy time.  We make the best of the situation because that is what is best for David.  Doesn’t mean that we like it. This mornings attitude was brought to us by “I didn’t get enough cereal for breakfast and don’t want to ask for more.” He makes excuses for his behavior.  “I didn’t have any more milk, so I couldn’t ask for more

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Restraint

Had to restrain David tonight.  He was kicking at me because I told him not to play with the cat food.  Littlest things can set him off, if I had thought about how it would end, I would have let him play with the cat food.   I ended up grabbing him by one arm and his opposite arm pit.  Arm pit is a pressure point and immediately allows me to get him to stop what he is doing. Says that now he is going to tell everyone that I beat him.  Since he was writing all over himself with a marker at school, and I made him scrub the marks off, it looks like I had a pretty good grip on him. We already have Child Protective Services coming to visit. Hopefully the PRTF bed will open next week and he will get to go there.  I am utterly exhausted

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Update: Some interesting things to note

To the people he rides to and from school with every day. David is not allowed technology.  He is not allowed technology because he has threatened to kill people via said technology.  When you hand him your phone, ipod, technology, you are opening yourself up to problems with law enforcement because of the risk that he poses. He is not allowed on YouTube, he is not allowed access to facebook.  It would be much easier for you if you just don’t let him use your technology than it would be for me to list all of the things he is not allowed to do on technology. The other issue.  If you feed David, what are you expecting in return?   He looks up to you. Please respect the boundaries we have established for our son.  To you it is just a piece of pizza.  David sees it as much more. Update:

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