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<blockquote data-quote="Bunny" data-source="post: 503313"><p>My friends always laugh at me when I tell them that my favorite day of the week is Monday. Kids back to school, husband back to work, and me having all day to decompress from the weekend and having everyone home.</p><p></p><p>We tend to have the same problem here, too. During the week there tends to be alot more structure to their days. Get up for school at a certain time, eat breakfast, get ready for school, got to school, come home, have a snack, do homework, have some playtime, eat dinner, take a shower, go to bed at bed time. The next day it's the same thing, over and over again for five days. Then the weekend comes and things are alot more lax. Some weekends you might have alot of things to do. The next weekend might be a quiet weekend. It's tough for them. I know that my difficult child has problems on the weekend because of this. He does much better when he knows that we're doing x, y, and z and such and such a time.</p><p></p><p>difficult child does the whole, "I'm bored! Play with me!" thing. Sometimes I do it, sometimes I don't. It's tough for them to understand that it's your weekend, too, and you need some downtime, too. I wish I had some advice for you about what to do with him. With us, difficult child does better if we do something with him in the morning. This morning is was make doughnuts with my new doughnut maker. He got my attention for a while, he got to do something that he likes, and he got doughnuts out of it.</p><p></p><p>Can you tell difficult child "We're going to play this game at this time. Before and after that you have to find a way to occupy yourself"?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bunny, post: 503313"] My friends always laugh at me when I tell them that my favorite day of the week is Monday. Kids back to school, husband back to work, and me having all day to decompress from the weekend and having everyone home. We tend to have the same problem here, too. During the week there tends to be alot more structure to their days. Get up for school at a certain time, eat breakfast, get ready for school, got to school, come home, have a snack, do homework, have some playtime, eat dinner, take a shower, go to bed at bed time. The next day it's the same thing, over and over again for five days. Then the weekend comes and things are alot more lax. Some weekends you might have alot of things to do. The next weekend might be a quiet weekend. It's tough for them. I know that my difficult child has problems on the weekend because of this. He does much better when he knows that we're doing x, y, and z and such and such a time. difficult child does the whole, "I'm bored! Play with me!" thing. Sometimes I do it, sometimes I don't. It's tough for them to understand that it's your weekend, too, and you need some downtime, too. I wish I had some advice for you about what to do with him. With us, difficult child does better if we do something with him in the morning. This morning is was make doughnuts with my new doughnut maker. He got my attention for a while, he got to do something that he likes, and he got doughnuts out of it. Can you tell difficult child "We're going to play this game at this time. Before and after that you have to find a way to occupy yourself"? [/QUOTE]
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