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Mr School Van Driver

Good morning my friends.  Hope this note finds you well. Yesterday was an excellent day. This morning, David was in full on mode.  Jumping from topic to topic so quickly that we couldn’t keep up.  In the course of 30 minutes, I bet he talked about 50 different things.  When he is like this there isn’t a lot that we can do except give him his ADHD meds and pray that they take hold before he gets to school. I imagine that the kids in the van had to tell him many times to stop talking.  Mr School Van Driver, my apologies.  Be happy that you only had to listen to it for 57 miles. That is all for this morning.  Tonight, if my legs cooperate, David and I are going for a bike ride.  More on that later. Carl   Tweet #fighting4answrs

wishes and dreams

I dream of a time when we don’t have to worry about him as much as we do.  Granted as a parent, part of us will always worry about our kids, but when you have a child like David, it is increased ten fold, a hundred fold. Today he came home from the mental health unit.  We didn’t even get out of the hospital before he was starting with behavior.  Playing with the elevator, not listening, moving things around that were on a shelf.  You know, child like behavior, and in some cases behavior of typical teen.  I get it, I do.  But considering where we had just come from, one would think that he would be on his very best behavior. I made a quick stop to pick up a part, and instructed him to not touch anything while I was in the store.  Came out to find he

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the next few days are going to be fun!

Well, big sister stopped by with a friend for a couple of minutes.  They didn’t stay long, as David was in tantrum mode. You see, mom got the bandages removed today, and we just can’t have someone else get more attention than he is getting. So big sister and friend turned around and left.  I don’t blame them, if I had a chance to get away for a bit, I would do so. What kicked off the tantrum?  I asked him to clean up his toys and junk in the living room. Since other people’s stuff was in the area, he reverted to the stand by argument that “I am not supposed to touch stuff that doesn’t belong to me.” In reality, he is correct, isn’t he?  But… As I walked away he made some inane comments.  About what I have no idea, and it doesn’t really matter. So since

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