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Today my oldest son Ben was involved with his schools District Athletics Day where they competed against other schools in the Southern District.

I was helping out with transport for the day so we had to be at school about half an hour earlier than normal.  I was having nightmares thinking about what I would do if Corey chose this day to refuse to go to school or to cause a big scene going to school as I really didn’t have the time to deal with that.

Ben started teasing him this morning – a usual occurance – so I sat him down and told him that if he wants to get to school on time and avoid any problems with Corey that he had to stop teasing and make it a happy morning for him.  So he stopped the teasing and we tried to be as cheerful and happy all morning as we could. Read the rest of this entry »

Corey went to school quite happily today which was great.  I can’t work him out, some days he goes to school fine and others he just refuses to go.  The school has set up a developmental plan to help him be less anxious at school so hopefully that might make a difference.

This morning I tried to keep things happy and got us running on schedule so that we weren’t rushing and running late, which I think made a difference to.  It’s weird though like none of those things bother the other two boys just Corey.

Yesterday afternoon I bought Aspergers Parenting which is an ebook so I had instant delivery. I downloaded it and printed it out – all 213 pages.  Now even though I don’t know if Corey has Aspergers or not when it talked about how to handle the behavior problems and anger I thought that it may be able to help me with him anyway.  I sat down last night and read it all and although there are many symptoms of Aspergers that Corey just doesn’t have, there were some that when I was reading them it was just like I was reading about Corey. Read the rest of this entry »