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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 399208" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Forewarning is good. The stones idea - good, but the problem can come if the stones come out too quickly and don't go in fast enough. We had to switch to a reward system where rewards, once earned, stayed earned. Your son's change in expression does sound like an increase in depression/decrease in self-exteem. Not good.</p><p>Your husband's point over the pork chops - I get what he was trying to say, but I don't think your son was able to connect those dots. Maybe you could pack a more concentrated lunch for him, but less of it, so he can eat it faster. A muesli bar or similar. </p><p>My kids used to eat all their lunch at the earlier recess (aka "little lunch") or they'd bring it home and eat lunch after they got home from school. NEVER throw out food, was our rule. If you don't want to eat it, bring it home so at the very least, it can be fed to the chickens. No waste.</p><p></p><p>A suggestion with your son's reading - it's good, use it. difficult child 3 was hyperlexic, so we used his reading a lot, it really boosted his progress. We would read a book together (in our me time) and as you have younger ones, you and difficult child can read to the younger ones as a team. difficult child 3 & I would take turns reading - sometimes he would read the dialogue and I would read the other bits; sometimes we would swap. When I read the dialogue I put on different voices and acted them out. That meant he did the same when he read dialogue, and it is a habit he got into so reading at school, he read with expression (something autistic kids supposedly can't do - difficult child 3 keeps breaking the 'rules'!). Reading this way has been a lot of fun for us both, and also for anyone listening. Reading, especially with expression, to someone younger teaches social skills. And this won't go to waste.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 399208, member: 1991"] Forewarning is good. The stones idea - good, but the problem can come if the stones come out too quickly and don't go in fast enough. We had to switch to a reward system where rewards, once earned, stayed earned. Your son's change in expression does sound like an increase in depression/decrease in self-exteem. Not good. Your husband's point over the pork chops - I get what he was trying to say, but I don't think your son was able to connect those dots. Maybe you could pack a more concentrated lunch for him, but less of it, so he can eat it faster. A muesli bar or similar. My kids used to eat all their lunch at the earlier recess (aka "little lunch") or they'd bring it home and eat lunch after they got home from school. NEVER throw out food, was our rule. If you don't want to eat it, bring it home so at the very least, it can be fed to the chickens. No waste. A suggestion with your son's reading - it's good, use it. difficult child 3 was hyperlexic, so we used his reading a lot, it really boosted his progress. We would read a book together (in our me time) and as you have younger ones, you and difficult child can read to the younger ones as a team. difficult child 3 & I would take turns reading - sometimes he would read the dialogue and I would read the other bits; sometimes we would swap. When I read the dialogue I put on different voices and acted them out. That meant he did the same when he read dialogue, and it is a habit he got into so reading at school, he read with expression (something autistic kids supposedly can't do - difficult child 3 keeps breaking the 'rules'!). Reading this way has been a lot of fun for us both, and also for anyone listening. Reading, especially with expression, to someone younger teaches social skills. And this won't go to waste. Marg [/QUOTE]
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