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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 490050" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>I am glad you had a good time decorating the cookies. in my opinion that good time needs to be the focus more than the swearing and problems. You handled his meltdown very well and I am in awe. I don't know if I could have remained so cool.</p><p></p><p>As hunger/food are a big trigger for him, what would happen if you had stopped every half hour or so to have a protein snack? Hard boiled egg, 2 slices of thin deli ham wrapped up with a piece of cheese or some cream cheese, cubes of cheese, whatever. Just a very short pause during the activity to put a little bit of protein into him. Most people do some tasting while they decorate. Eat a cookie, try a bit of icing, whatever. That injection of sugar can contribute to problems, esp as food and transitions are already hard for him. Figure out what he likes that is mostly protein then do a short snack (refueling pause might be a good name for it, or whatever they call it in races wehn the cars have to stop for gas) and back to cookies. He shouldn't have to leave the area where he is working - just take it to him at least for a while. Of course he will have to wash hands after, just good hygeine. If stopping to go to the sink to wash is a problem, have some baby wipes on hand and let him use those - but ONLY after refueling. </p><p></p><p>We didn't do it every hour, or really on any schedule, but with Wiz I knew if we were decorating cookies and didn't "pause for protein" (what I called it to let him be SURE that it was just a pause and not stopping totally. I used pause because you pause a videogame and then go back to it, and that is what we were doing with the protein) then we would hae a HUGE awful meltdown when it was time to stop. </p><p></p><p>I'm sorry the end was so rough, but it sounds like you had a good time in spite of that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 490050, member: 1233"] I am glad you had a good time decorating the cookies. in my opinion that good time needs to be the focus more than the swearing and problems. You handled his meltdown very well and I am in awe. I don't know if I could have remained so cool. As hunger/food are a big trigger for him, what would happen if you had stopped every half hour or so to have a protein snack? Hard boiled egg, 2 slices of thin deli ham wrapped up with a piece of cheese or some cream cheese, cubes of cheese, whatever. Just a very short pause during the activity to put a little bit of protein into him. Most people do some tasting while they decorate. Eat a cookie, try a bit of icing, whatever. That injection of sugar can contribute to problems, esp as food and transitions are already hard for him. Figure out what he likes that is mostly protein then do a short snack (refueling pause might be a good name for it, or whatever they call it in races wehn the cars have to stop for gas) and back to cookies. He shouldn't have to leave the area where he is working - just take it to him at least for a while. Of course he will have to wash hands after, just good hygeine. If stopping to go to the sink to wash is a problem, have some baby wipes on hand and let him use those - but ONLY after refueling. We didn't do it every hour, or really on any schedule, but with Wiz I knew if we were decorating cookies and didn't "pause for protein" (what I called it to let him be SURE that it was just a pause and not stopping totally. I used pause because you pause a videogame and then go back to it, and that is what we were doing with the protein) then we would hae a HUGE awful meltdown when it was time to stop. I'm sorry the end was so rough, but it sounds like you had a good time in spite of that. [/QUOTE]
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