Category Archives: challenges

Day 2 the evening. ~ frustrated

Well, everyone is home with our son and I.  Five kids plus my wife and I.  Our son seems to be content with pushing as many buttons as possible all evening long. Time-outs aren’t working.  Quiet time isn’t working. He just wants to push push push.  Every one is getting frustrated. I wish that they hadn’t been forced to take him off of the clozeril.  Things are going to be much rougher than they were when he was in the residential facility.  We did home visits and all of that before he was discharged and these behaviours weren’t in evidence at that time. Trying to cope. He isn’t like this during the day time when it is just him and I. ========= An hour later, we covered him completely with the blanket.  Maybe too much input, as he is fine now.  He has stopped pushing buttons and is relaxed. Tweet

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Day 1 – a recap

Today started out rough.  Bad mood on his behalf.  Once we got the siblings off to school, he was fine.  Spent the morning playing and looking for the homework pile that mom put together for us. Never did find it. In the afternoon we went into the city for an appointment for me.  Grandpa was nice enough to host our son for the two hours I needed to go to my appointment. Everything went like clockwork. Trying to get all of the players together to meet with the school district about his return to public school.  I think that it would be easier to get a job at the circus working as a lion tamer.  Very frustrating. In the meantime, in order to keep the district in compliance, we need to complete some paperwork that says we are home schooling our son. We aren’t home schooling him because we want

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>1 year — a look back

>It has been a year since I started this blog and its corresponding facebook group. So much has happened. Little did I know that M’s initial attack on his teacher would develop into 2 further attacks, 3 hospitalizations, probation, and a placement in a residential facility.  As a result we are exploring our legal options against the school district.  We are still holding M accountable for his actions, but feel that the school district should be held accountable for theirs as well. The past year has seen major health challenges for me, as well as a redefinition of what it is to be a man, at least for me.  I am still struggling to come to terms with the things I have lost, and am learning to further embrace the things I hold dear to my heart. Friends close to our hearts have been uprooted due to flooding in their

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