This week Ross has been rough again, behaviour has deteriorated and he is constantly tired.
Interesting as I bought a diluting apple juice for him which has 50% juice in it as he is asking for apple juice all the time. Such a shame as he reallt likes it.
Anyway, we went into Manchester on Monday and he was running around for most of the day unable to sit still or concentrate, he eventually fell asleep and as I had (luckily) taken his pram he slept in the Trafford Centre for over an hour.
Tuesday we stayed at home as part of my ‘plan’ Ross did some colour by numbers with adding up. I let him have 15 minutes of games and then we paused the game for some more maths. I’m not sure if it was a mistake or not, Ross was fixated with doing enough maths for more computer time and rattled through a whole lot of addition problems. Then I had to let him have more games as promised.
It certainly shows he has no problems with that and I’ll have to find other things for him to do.
Wendesday
Morning at an indoor playbarn as I wanted to take him to the Children’s centre play in the afternoon. We managed an hour before a couple of 3/4 yr olds upset him to the point of growling and hitting out. I managed to calm him down but within a few minutes of playing it was obvious that he was not calm. We gave up and came home.
Children’s centre in the afternoon. Ross played outside for a while, which I was pleased at because he was still not calm, after about an hour of playing mainly by himself we were ushered into the centre’s sensory room.
I’m not sure whether the dim and ‘sensory’ lights and toys helpd Ross calm down, or whether he got involved in playing with the Fibre Optic cables etc. (which he knows about) but after an hour in there he was a much happier boy. I also had a chat with a Speech therapist, very nice but yet again tried to persuade me that Ross should be in school.
Thursday, at home, very active, very angry, did not want to do anything. I did bring out the phonics footprints but Ross got really upset and angry so I gave up.
Went shopping in the afternoon and Ross fell asleep in the car.
Friday
Ross said he was tired as he climbed into our bed at 8am Protested all day that he was tired and didn’t want to go out. Eventually managed to get him out at 3pm and went to a local park with children he knew at preschool. He found someone with toy guns and actually played with one of these for at least 45mins. There was a little interaction with the other children but not much.
Eventually the other child went home (with guns) within 15 mins Ross was hitting another child and we had to leave.
7.30pm Ross has just had 30 minutes of PC games as otherwise I think he would have done damage, we managed to make him wait until after dinner. Got him to switch the game off without too much trouble and he has spent a few minutes on his feet SPINNING. First time I have seen this.
Currently sitting watching TV. He’s just asked for more dinner which confirms the comments on Apple juice at the top of this post.
