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It all started over a pair of socks this morning.  I was getting the boys clothes ready for school and had everything except for their socks.  So I was looking through the clean washing basket for socks and the first pair I found were Bens.

That was it!

Corey immediately went on a rampage that I always get socks for Ben and Lachlan but never for him, he always has to find his own.

Hang on a minute……  I haven’t finished getting the socks yet, this is just the first pair I found and they just happened to be Bens.  I haven’t found any for Lachlan yet either, but could I explain that to him???

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I’m just feeling so down at the moment as I’m starting to feel like everyone hates us.  I think all my friends and their kids have just about had enough of Corey’s behavior.  I want to make excuses for him and tell them that it’s not his fault and he can’t help the way he behaves, but then I try to think about how I’d feel in their position, I probably wouldn’t like his behavior either.

I have one friend who has 3 kids the same age as my 3 and they are all quite good friends.  Her oldest is having a birthday in a couple of weeks and she keeps going on about how her son doesn’t really want to invite Ben because Ben doesn’t get on well with Corey.  That really annoyed me, they are supposed to be friends and she is supposed to be my friend and yet she thinks it’s quite funny that her son doesn’t want to invite Ben.  The fact that Ben doesn’t get on well with Corey has got nothing to do with their friendship or his birthday party. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s headache Wednesday!

I have no idea why but there is starting to get a bit of a pattern.  It is often a Wednesday when Corey is ’sick’.  Today it is a headache.  I spoke with his teacher this morning and there isn’t really anything that we can think of that happens at school on a Wednesday that he might be scared off.

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Poor Corey!  You know he and I are very much alike and that can be a real problem when we get into an argument as it doesn’t matter how stupid or petty the argument is, we both just want the last word.

Last night he was being really awful.  He wanted to play pool when it was time for bed and I was telling him that its time for bed and to go and brush his teeth.  Then he just told me ‘no, I’m going to have another game of pool’.  Of course that just rubbed me up the wrong way completely – I mean, I’m his mother and I’m telling him to go and brush his teeth.  I’m not asking him if he wants to go and brush his teeth, I am telling him to go and do it. Read the rest of this entry »

A couple of weeks ago Corey saw a jacket at the shop that he decided he ‘had’ to have.  Finances are a bit tight so we said no we can’t really afford it right now.  He wasn’t happy at all and days later was still going on and on and on about this jacket.  It got even worse when his older brother Ben started the soccer season and we had to buy new soccer boots and socks, shin pads etc for him.

“Why does he get everything”

“He gets everything and I get nothing”

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I haven’t updated this blog for a long time even though I keep meaning to. I decided to give it a whole new look so I hope you like the new look. After having a couple of comments left on the blog it inspired me to come in and post again. If I can help other parents just by letting them read our story and letting them know that they are not alone, then it is worth coming in and updating regularly.

So here is our update……..

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We started the wheat free, sugar free and color free diet on Thursday but as yet I don’t think there is any difference.  Corey is also taking the supplements suggested by the naturopath.  They say it can take a while before noticing any difference though as it takes a while to flush everything out of their system.

Corey has actually had a few reasonably good days and then today he went bad again.  I really wish I could pinpoint what it is that makes him worse on some days than on others. Read the rest of this entry »

The school holidays are over and today was the first day back at school and just as I predicted Corey refused to go to school.  I’m sure the number of days he’s missed this year must be getting close for the school to put a report in to the education department.  I’m not sure of how many days you can be absent for before that happens.

We have a new symptom or habit now that Corey has just started over the last week.  Now he wont go to sleep at night and cries because he is scared.  He has never been scared in his room at night before.  He use to share a room with Lachlan and then we moved them all into their own rooms which he was really happy with and liked having his own room.  However, Lachlan wasn’t very happy and was scared in his own room and wanted to go back to sharing with Corey.  That is the weird bit, when Corey was with Lachlan before he was fine, when he was on his own he was fine, now he’s sharing again he’s scared.  The last few nights I’ve had to lie down next to him until he has fallen asleep.  Read the rest of this entry »