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| Tue, 03-14-2006 - 7:17pm |
Ok, I am not sure if I have posted about this before or not.
| Tue, 03-14-2006 - 7:17pm |
Ok, I am not sure if I have posted about this before or not.
Hi Tina,
I need advice on this too and am just writing to tell you Bobby and Eric seem on parallel paths again. Eric's OCD stuff has gone through the roof since November. With him, it is rituals about checking things before we leave the house. Certain doors have to be shut, others open, certain lights on, other off. He wants to eat bacon and eggs at all meals every day, and he has to crack the eggs or it is a crisis. Stuff like that. He also has started moving small items around the house (little plants, chairs) he calls it "organizing." His Thomas obsession has taken a new and to me disturbing twist. He has to watch a particular episode ("THomas Saves the Day" including the "troublesome trucks") and at the same time he has to enact the show as the video is playing using his trains. If not allowed to do this, he gets upset.
He has taken his obsession with Little Einsteins to the point that if others ask him his name he says, "LEO." This disturbs me from a safety angle. He continues to call me "June" from Little Einsteins (I guess it could be worse, I could be Sir Topham Hatt from Thomas!)
I don't know the right approach either, but this is why we are in the dilemma over the meds (my other post). I pick my battles. I only let him have bacon and eggs for breakfast. It starts a battle, but he can't just eat that. I do let him do his door ritual before we leave the house and I let him do his Thomas reenactment once when he gets home from school,or as a reward for something he has done well.
I try to break the cycle, moving things around in the house, start doing something silly myself when he starts his rituals to see if I can make him laugh and distract him. On occasion it works. We do try to spend a good part of the afternoon at the playground and he seems fine there, blowing off steam.
I am just as disturbed as you bc it seems to be getting more pronounced, yet Eric's social skills and speech are getting better, we've had a lot of stress at home in the same time this started. I don't know. Just wanted you to know you are not alone and I am just as concerned about Eric for similar reasons.
Katherine
Tina,
Nathan's traits have surfaced more too. He's been sticking more to his routines and he also seems to get upset real easily too. With Nathan, whenever he is home....he's decompressing from school. Even if it's on the weekends. Just the relaxation of being home, where it's comfortable...and there's no kids around!!!
He's still obsessed with Star Wars. But he still has to watch Little Einsteins before he goes to school. And I mean EVERY day. I, too, am waiting for the day that he becomes obsessed with something else!! LOL We've been doing the Star Wars thing for quite sometime now!!! LOL Maybe it will lead to an interest in astronomy!!
michelle
Jake has been acting out of sorts for a while now too but I think it has to do with being cooped up all winter and also a leap in language. He spends so much time aimlessly running in circles and I have tried everything to get him to stop. I did realize he does it more when he is getting ready to transition from one activity to the other. I guess that could make sense for Bobby too because he is transitioning from school to home and it must be pretty hard for the little guy to keep it together all day in school.Weekends are hard for us too because the kids are less structured than they are during the week and my kids do not like the unexpected(LOL).
Teresa
I keep telling myself this obsession with the vcr/dvd player will let him to a career in electronics or film making .
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