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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 »

Do you ever feel like that?  You have a couple of reasonably good days and you just start to feel like you’re getting somewhere and then things just take a nose dive for the worse again.  It’s school holidays here and I must admit the kids bedtimes have been all over the place and I think they are all a bit tired and I’m sure Coreys behavior is 10 times worse when he’s tired, as with all kids I guess.

We had a terrible, terrible day today.  Derek had to work this morning which he doesn’t usually do on Saturdays and boy was I glad he only worked half the day.  I was in tears by the time he got home, it is just so incredibly hard when things just seem to get worse and worse instead of better. Read the rest of this entry »

Far out, I am so tired of all this.

Today we had an appointment with Dr Callary again which went quite well.  Although, he does believe now that Corey does likely have a disorder that is neurological and not just bad behavior.  He thinks it may very well be Aspergers but is still not confident enough to actually diagnose it but says that the more he learns about Corey the more that he can see the signs of Aspergers in him.

The problem we have now is that if it is Aspergers then this is something he was born with and it’s really not his fault that he acts the way he does.  But that doesn’t make it any easier for us to deal with.  How do you deal with this? Read the rest of this entry »

Once again Corey is not at school today.

Oh man, this is getting so tiring.  Where’s that magic want when you need it????

A couple of days ago Corey got a detention which was as a result of two kids picking on him and then kicking him and when he told them over and over to stop and they didn’t, eventually he got up and punched them both.  I must admit I have always told my kids to stand up for themselves.  However, as a result it was Corey that ended up with a detention and it was the Indonesian teacher who gave it to him.  Today they were having a big Indonesian feast for middle and upper primary and after all the struggles of trying to get him to go to school, later in the morning I finally got it out of him that was why he didn’t want to go because he doesn’t like the Indonesian teacher anymore and didn’t want to have to see her. Read the rest of this entry »

With Dr Callary recently diagnosing Corey with ODD I have decided to find out as much as I can about this disorder and to put the information on our blog. In fact I may include information on the blog of other disorders at some stage also.

This post is basically just about the symptoms of Oppositional Defiant Disorder and yes Corey has all of them.

 I know all children will display some of these symptoms or maybe even all of them from time to time but it really is more than the normal ‘naughtiness’ and as a parent you just know that it is beyond the normal. Take our family for example, we have three boys who have all been brought up in the same house by the same parents and yet our oldest and youngest do not have a problem with behavior. They have the general naughtiness and yes they may be defiant and they may argue from time to time but never to an extent that we have thought they had a behavior problem. Read the rest of this entry »