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Knowing his level of tiredness, etc I would definitely have helped him pick them up. I am sure that when he is feeling well and "in a good place" he might have picked them up without being asked or at least done so with a prompt. I think we forget that if an adult friend had dropped the cards or even if J had a friend over we would immediately help that person to pick up the cards because it is considerate and polite, but now we are holding our kids to a different standard by insisting they do it on their own.
That is interesting to me, I just mentioned this after our IEP meeting today to our Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) psychiatric. They have mentioned in 3 separate meetings now that during the first time difficult child was with his new peer social buddy, he did say one inappropriate thing...What if everybody came to school naked? Ok, that was really immature but it was not his blurting/aggressive stuff. And I have been around that age for a long time, they say some really inappropriate things. Way worse than that. I think we get so worried about behaviors escalating sometimes that we cut them off even before they can get a chance to do so themselves. Anyway that is what I catch myself doing. Sometimes for the good, but other times he needs to be able to say and do stupid kid tricks like all the other kids.