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Our neighbours are fairly quiet and generally keep to themselves, except Jeff (let’s just call him Jeff so as not to use real names) who will come over and chat away whenever he is drunk.  Any other time he keeps to himself mostly.

So last night he had a few drinks and was a bit tipsy to say the least, so over he came.  The kids and I were outside playing basketball at the time.  So Jeff comes over and starts talking about Corey.  How Corey obviously has problems and so do I with him.  Then he starts going on about how I need to just stay calm and actually when he is being naughty I should send him over to his house because he is really good with kids and kids just seem to like him for some reason.

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Hug Therapy

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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Well the kids are all off to school so I have some peace and quiet to come on here and write another post.  If you have read my blog in the past you will know that I’ve had a lot of problems with my middle boy Corey, which was the reason for me starting this blog, I guess just to have somewhere where I can come in and vent my frustrations.

Since starting this blog I have had a number of emails from Mothers with similar issues, with kids that have behavior problems and can’t seem to find a solution to them.  Some with ODD, some with ADHD and some with Aspergers and then some, like Corey, that can’t seem to get a diagnosis.

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School started back a couple of days ago and I have been pleasantly surprised that on the third day back Corey has gone to school each day quite happily.  Usually the first couple of days back after holidays are the worst and he doesn’t want to go, so this is probably the first time ever that he’s gone back without a fight.

He does have a really good teacher this year so he is so much happier.  The school enrolment numbers were 1 student down for being eligible for another class and another teacher.  Numbers are counted again at the end of next week and if they get one more enrolment over the next week then they will get another class.  So there is still a chance that he might be moved to a different class.  I’ve made sure that he doesn’t get put into the class of the teacher he’s had so much trouble with, so even if he changes class he should still get a good teacher.

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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.

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