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<blockquote data-quote="SRL" data-source="post: 208419" data-attributes="member: 701"><p>Terry, I'm not in your shoes but reading through all of this makes me think that you might want to rethink your plans for holidays. My difficult child struggled tremendously with holidays such as Halloween when he was younger--we cleared the calendar the day before and the day after whenever possible. I was armed and ready after the class parties for meltdown prevention--lots of Occupational Therapist (OT) strategies and keeping the sibs away from him. A cushion of alone time was needed between school party and trick-or-treating and then again before bedtime. The day after we laid low and stayed flexible knowing that he needed a day of recovery from the change in routine and overstimulation. That meant making choices like not going to things we might have otherwise attended and keeping him away from crowds. Definitely it wasn't a time for making demands such as cleaning a room because he could barely maintain the way it was...and that was even without missing medications. Even on a good day mine couldn't have had an overstimulated night with little sleep, gone on an am appointment, played in a game, run errands, cleaned up their room and then gone out to eat dinner and held it together. Heck, even the sibs wouldn't handle that schedule well.</p><p> </p><p>I'm not in your shoes and I mean this very kindly, but when things are sure to be out of whack due to changes in schedule/routine due to holiday, missing medications, and a parent out of town, the chances are very high that you're going to get meltdown unless you make some adjustments. It's too late for this time but kicking up meltdown prevention and lowering demands a la the Explosive Child might be worth a try next time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRL, post: 208419, member: 701"] Terry, I'm not in your shoes but reading through all of this makes me think that you might want to rethink your plans for holidays. My difficult child struggled tremendously with holidays such as Halloween when he was younger--we cleared the calendar the day before and the day after whenever possible. I was armed and ready after the class parties for meltdown prevention--lots of Occupational Therapist (OT) strategies and keeping the sibs away from him. A cushion of alone time was needed between school party and trick-or-treating and then again before bedtime. The day after we laid low and stayed flexible knowing that he needed a day of recovery from the change in routine and overstimulation. That meant making choices like not going to things we might have otherwise attended and keeping him away from crowds. Definitely it wasn't a time for making demands such as cleaning a room because he could barely maintain the way it was...and that was even without missing medications. Even on a good day mine couldn't have had an overstimulated night with little sleep, gone on an am appointment, played in a game, run errands, cleaned up their room and then gone out to eat dinner and held it together. Heck, even the sibs wouldn't handle that schedule well. I'm not in your shoes and I mean this very kindly, but when things are sure to be out of whack due to changes in schedule/routine due to holiday, missing medications, and a parent out of town, the chances are very high that you're going to get meltdown unless you make some adjustments. It's too late for this time but kicking up meltdown prevention and lowering demands a la the Explosive Child might be worth a try next time. [/QUOTE]
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