Category Archives: Mental Health – Child

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Pulbic to news media or not?

Fox News Channel

I have been advised to take our story regarding David public.
To CNN and FoxNews.  IThe CNN Center in Atlanta.n regards to how No Child Left Behind and the Garrison School District have conspired against educating our son in the home district under the guise of “we are unable to provide the services that his needs require…”  How is shuttling him 58 miles each way to a school in another district considered least restrictive?

What say you?  I am not an attention seeking man. I would rather seek the path of diplomacy.  But when diplomacy fails, what path is one left with?

What is the difference between facilitation and mediation?

We have had a facilitated IEP, and now the school is calling for a Mediated IEP.  What is the difference?  Or do we skip it all and go right to Due Process.  There are those who also think that we should file a law suit against the district.

I am torn. I will be meeting with all of the care providers in David’s case over the coming week to make a decision regarding this.

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cat food, matches and more

Cat Food Delight: naughty JoshyWell, Mr Gadget has struck again.

I give him this, he is creative in his abilities to take things with slight of hand.

He managed to steal a key to the cupboard padlocks. He managed to steal a key to the two new doors that we installed to keep him out of sections of the house.

So far we have found: 3 opened cans of cat food.  He says that he was hungry. (the cat food is stored in the same cupboard as the people food, at the very bottom of the cupboard.) He knows it is cat food.  Says he was sharing it with the cat.

 

1 box of wooden safety strike on box matches.

1 mp3 player.

1 set of keys to each vehicle we own.

oh, and he has made himself throw up his meds again.  both last night and this morning.  Plus he has admitted to doing this while he was at his respite home on Sunday.

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spooky behavior

My 10 year old would give Houdini a run for his money in the magic disappearance category.

Harry Houdini Scrapbook [Front cover]

What is spooky about it is when he goes into a room you can tell that he is cataloging the contents of the room.  Determining thos items that he can take.  It isn’t suspicion that makes me think this.  I have seen him do it.  Then when he fixates on something, that item disappears as quick as you can blink your eye.

The item might be of little to no value, and it might be expensive, it doesn’t matter, once he sets his mind to it, that item becomes his, or at least he thinks it does.  What makes a person think that way?

His therapist claims that he knows right from wrong, because he knows that we will search him and he puts things in places where he knows we won’t search.  Calculating? or honest mental illness?

On the one hand, I think that it is calculating.  He knows that he will get in trouble for stealing things that aren’t his.

On the other hand, one would think that he would eventually hate being in trouble and stop doing the behavior.  He doesn’t respond to award or token appreciation for positive behavior reinforcement.

Tonight for example, I was working on giving him his medication.  He looked at me with a sly little grin on his face.  And asked if he could go to the bathroom after he took his pills.  Normally the answer would be yes, however we have discovered that he has been forcing himself to vomit his meds up.

How did we learn that?  Well that is a lesson for me to share with you on another day in the form of an article, rather than a post.

No, I don’t think that it is an eating disorder.  He just doesn’t want to take his meds.  We are working with is therapist and psych team on a solution.

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