Category Archives: odd oppositional defiant

>Food FIght

>So M had a rough day at school today.

Got through the morning alright. At lunch he started throwing his food around because he wanted somebodies attention. When the teacher called him on it, he slammed his tray down and threw the rest of his food all over the area where he was sitting. The teacher walked away rather than let it escalate, and M threw his cookies at a classmate, called them all a bunch of “sons of bitches” and started a tantrum.

So he spent the rest of the day with the special ed teacher.

Tomorrow he has to help the janitor by wiping down the tables in the lunch room as punishment for his behavior.

He is on a number of meds, more like a pharmacy.

I recommended to the special ed teacher that we adjust the time of delivery of M’s noon med so that it would have a little more time in his body before lunch. Seems like it might take an act of congress and special permission from the doctor to move it from 12 to 11:30.

My thought is that the prescription is not rigid in that it has to be given at 12:00 when it says noon on the label. I understand rules, and logic but geez.

So he lost privileges tonight. Now, we are having an argument about food. he doesn’t want to accept that his food has to be cooked before he can eat it.

>M and the walk

>So M was in fine form today. I have to try to keep my heart rate down, and he has to push as many buttons as he can to get his daily dose of scolding and punishment.

He got the other kids so upset, and stated that he didn’t want to live here anymore. Not thinking, I told him he knew where the door was. He actually walked out wearing one shoe, no socks, no coat. Guess I won’t call his bluff like that again.

Will be on the phone with his doctor tomorrow though. T was so upset he was going to chase M down. T is a high functioning autistic, so he was pretty upset, he doesn’t normally show emotion. Given that I was in the hospital this last week with heart trouble, and T knows what that means, he was very upset. K – one of my girls – had to physically restrain T.

Not sure what we are going to do with M, but this can’t continue, he is causing problems with the rest of the family. How do we weigh the needs of 6 people over the needs of 1?

>Heart event

>So I had what the doctors refer to as a heart event. Now, I am supposed to keep calm. I have blood pressure medicine.

How can I keep calm when a child is constantly doing things he shouldn’t be, taking things that aren’t his, and hoarding garbage?

The ODD and OCD in him will make both of us crazy.

I have to remove myself from the situation, over and over again, as I really don’t want the heart event to recur or become something more severe.

I was told by my daughter that out of all of the kids, M was the only one who was not upset about me being in the hospital. Is it because he doesn’t understand? He is only 9, yet…