Category Archives: difficult behavior.

Day 4 ~ a recap

So, it seems that our youngest son has issues with needing attention when any of his other siblings are home.  It doesn’t matter to him if he is negative or positive in how he gets the attention.  He will push any button he can to get attention. So we spent quite a bit of time in quiet spaces tonight.  Quiet space in our house, we have 5 kids age 10 to 17, is where ever an empty room and a blanket exist.  Once he gets under the blanket in the empty room for a couple of minutes, everything is fine for a good 45 minutes.  Then we repeat the process.  On one hand it is frustrating, on the other hand, we are learning how to interact with him in a different way that doesn’t allow the negative behaviors to surface. Early today when it was just the two of us,

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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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>being difficult.

>So I was away at a basketball game for one of the girls. M was home with his sister, and brother’s and mom. He managed to get into trouble by stealing a laptop from me, playing with my fax machine, borrowing a book from school, and stealing pens from his mother. He is not allowed computer time without supervision. The machine that he was playing with could have belonged to a customer, it didn’t, but it could have, which is why he isn’t allowed to play with computers without supervision. The fax machine can be expensive if long distance numbers are called while sending faxes. He isn’t allowed to borrow books from school because he writes in everything, and it gets expensive having to replace them on a regular basis. He isn’t allowed to write with pens or markers because he writes all over everything, walls, himself, books, the bath

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