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We are getting quite desperate lately as Corey’s behavior is just getting so out of control.  He is quite regularly banging his head against the wall or grabbing an object and hitting himself in the head with it.

He actually did it at school today in the school counsellor’s office which I don’t know the full story of yet as I just received a phone call asking me to drop in and see them tomorrow morning.  Apparently it was over him not doing homework and as a consequence he has to do it during lunch time which I don’t think he was too happy about.

Then to top things off today he got in a fight at school at lunch time and has a detention tomorrow.  Surprisingly he is actually in a reasonable mood tonight so far which I wasn’t expecting given his bad day at school.

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I don’t know what to write today, I just feel so tired and sad and that I’m just lost.

Corey’s anger is getting so bad that it is almost constant all day long, almost every time you talk to him he will have an outburst.  It is getting ridiculous.  He spends so much time pulling his hair, punching himself in the head, banging his head against things and punching and kicking doors and walls.

He had an outburst the other day over something so silly that my other son and myself just stood there with our jaws dropped as we couldn’t believe the way he was acting (it was a really strange outburst) and the fact that he was acting this way over nothing.

I just don’t have the patience for him anymore and I know that doesn’t help matters.  But i’m just so tired of having to fight with him over everything.  Last night I asked the boys to do their homework and he just starts yelling, then picks up a jigsaw box and threw it across the room (yes all the jigsaw pieces went flying everywhere).  Then he can’t understand why I want him to pick them all up, he basically told me that I was lazy and don’t do anything around the house (this is after I just spent 2 hours doing dishes and cleaning the kitchen and decided not to ask for the kids to help, that I would let them have their free time).  Needless to say, I ended up picking up all the jigsaw pieces after he stormed off to his room screaming and swearing.

I’m just so tired – I’m sorry, I know I’ve already said that, but it’s my main emotion today, if it is an emotion at all.  I get enough sleep at night, but I’m still so tired all day because I’m emotionally exhausted.  I just feel useless, like I can’t help him, I don’t know how to help him.

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When Corey gets into one of his rages I really can’t stand to watch him like that.  Sometimes he just gets so upset that I think he’s going to explode if he doesn’t stop yelling and screaming like that.

For example, last night him and Ben just wouldn’t stop fighting.  My husband just got to the stage that he’d had enough and told them both to go and have a shower and go to bed – it was only around 7pm at the time.  Corey just went crazy and lost it completely, no way was he going to have a shower and go to bed that early.

Of course Corey isn’t going to give in but neither is my husband and my husband completely refused to leave Coreys room until Corey agreed to go and have a shower.  Which of course he wouldn’t and the longer my husband stood there the more Corey would scream.

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Poor Corey

Early this evening Corey and Lachlan went outside to take the rubbish out.  I heard Corey screaming and ran out to see what had happened.

There was a MASSIVE spider on his leg.

He was just terrified.  He later told me that he felt it crawling up his foot (he had bare feet at the time) then looked down and it was on his let (thankfully he was wearing long pants).

I picked up a shoe then he got more stressed saying ‘no don’t it will bite me’.  So then I’m thinking if I just squash it I would be squashing it against his leg and maybe it would bite him.  If I try to flick it off with the shoe, there’s a chance I’d miss or not hit hard enough to get it right off and once again it could bite him.

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Happy New Year and I hope that all my blog readers have a fantastic 2010.

As I woke this morning to the start of a new year I woke to the familiar sound of my children fighting.  Who needs an alarm when you have children!

So the first day of our new year is no different than any other day, the day was still full off teasing, fighting and swearing.  Thankfully, we had a good night last night bringing in the new year and so I at least was in a good mood and could tolerate it to a reasonable extent.

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We need to take some sort of action but I just don’t know what.  When we have already tried 2 psychologists and 1 psychiatrist, where do we go next.

Yesterday was a really bad day.  After school, Ben and a couple of friends were giving Corey a hard time and they all argued and stuff until Corey had enough and couldn’t control himself any longer.  He just completely lost control and started going after one of Bens friends.

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It makes me sad to look at my son and see that he is just such an angry and unhappy boy.  Why did he ever become so unhappy?

Yesterday the kids had their school concert, which was in the morning at their school.  The night before Corey was getting really worried about it and told me that he really didn’t want to do it.  He didn’t have any ’solo’ part in the concert, just his whole class going up on stage to sing.  He didn’t want to go on stage in front of all the school and all the parents that would be there.

I remember that feeling, he is so much like me when I was a child.  The difference though is that I just accepted my fate and did it, I didn’t feel like I had any other choice than to do it even though I was terrified. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve read many times about not making threats unless you are prepared to carry through with them and while I usually intend to follow through with my threats I often give in.  Sometimes it is just easier at the time to give in and sometimes I just feel guilty – depending on what it is.

A couple of nights ago though I actually stuck to it and gave Corey a punishment that I felt guilty about.  My oldest son Ben wanted to go and see the movie New Moon.  At first I was going to take all the kids to see it but as we are watching the budget at the moment I was a little hesitant to take the younger too since they aren’t really as interested in the Twilight movies as Ben is. Read the rest of this entry »