Monday, March 11, 2013

Strong willed and annoying

Interference.... I was going for a pass and ended up getting tackled. There are days when I can plan my life and then something happens and I end up with so much stress from this child...complicated by other siblings.

I booked my oldest child to watch her younger brother. She did but then for some odd reason felt like coming to watch her younger siblings and ruined my day. I get so annoyed at the younger child who lacks the ability to sit through any performance but the older siblings seem to not think.

I've gotten to the point where I don't want him coming anywhere with me if I want to enjoy something. A movie, forget it. At age 4 he isn't like other children and lacks the ability to sit still, not make a scene.

I wonder how other parents with special needs children handle them. He can seem so normal that you forget how much of a handful he can be in public. At home he is fine. He watches too much television, but is happy doing that, playing with legos.

Trying to figure out what is best for him. Intense therapy....I don't see the point. He has a normal attention span of a 3 year old. (yes he is 4...) I don't see the point in driving 30 minutes one way, and spending 30 minutes playing with some toy and saying the names of the items, driving 30 minutes home.

He's improving, it is just becoming more obvious that something is wrong. "He doesn't act like a four year old." an observation by one of his 10 year old brother's friends. No, he doesn't. He won't talk to you much. He's quieter but if he wants something or wants to behave a certain way, expect it to happen or an extreme moment where he is so annoying you wonder, is it worth it....yes, because maybe the next time he won't do it.

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