My Beautiful Boy

The boys returned to school today after 2 weeks holidays except for Corey who has his 3 day suspension beginning today.  He’s not very impressed when I told him that he was not allowed to just sit home and watch TV or play games.  I gave him a list that included some chores and some school work and told him he could choose to do them in whatever order he wished, but they must be done.

He is allowed breaks at the usual time that he would at school – recess and lunch, but other than that he is doing the things on the list I gave him.  He wasn’t too impressed but after much arguing and yelling and throwing things, realised that I wasn’t going to back down and started doing them.

I haven’t had much of a chance to read the ‘out of control teen’ ebook, I am probably about half way through it.  It sounds quite good and the thing I like about it is that it is done over a period of 4 weeks, so rather than read a book and then just find that you are suffering from information overload and just don’t know where to start, this one is done as a course over 4 weeks which should make each strategy easier to follow.

There are also video’s to watch along with the ebook, but I think I will wait until Thursday when Corey is back at school as I don’t want to sit and watch them while he is here with me.

Corey has now been taking the Mindsoothe Jr for just over 3 weeks and I think I’m starting to see some effect.  Not a great deal, he is still angry and still throwing tantrums, name calling, slamming doors etc, but….. I do think that his tantrums are just a little less intense than usual.  So it’s still a bit early to tell, but I think the Mindsoothe might just be having enough effect just to take the edge of it all.  He has been very good with taking it too, and often he will remind me that he needs it if I forget.

So that’s my update – two more days with Corey home after today and then I’ll have them all back at school and can sit and relax with a bit of quiet