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<blockquote data-quote="JKF" data-source="post: 486654" data-attributes="member: 12470"><p>Thanks everyone for your responses and advice! Sorry I can't address each individually but right now my brain is fried! It's been a LONG couple of days!! We are having a much better day today but I'm totally drained.</p><p></p><p>As for difficult child and school, he has an aide who is with him all day! She's amazing and I love her! She tries her very best to help difficult child stay organized and remember assignments, etc. but there's only so much she can do. He has newspaper club on Tuesday afternoons and that's when I'm seeing a pattern of him not bringing home his homework. What's been happening is that he stops at his locker before newspaper and puts things in there. When he goes to get them after he forgets what he needs. By then the aide is long gone. What I've started doing is checking his bag before we leave the school but I still get so frustrated sometimes.</p><p></p><p>That's my biggest issue lately. The anger. And it's not just because difficult child is leaving things at school. It's everything. It's just so hard sometimes and I'm finding myself losing it a lot lately. I hate yelling. It accomplishes nothing yet I can't help it. I have some coping techniques such as walking away and counting and breathing deeply. They work sometimes but not all the time. I guess I just need to take it day by day and situation by situation. Like I said, today was a good day. No yelling even though there were times I wanted to. I guess it's a start.....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JKF, post: 486654, member: 12470"] Thanks everyone for your responses and advice! Sorry I can't address each individually but right now my brain is fried! It's been a LONG couple of days!! We are having a much better day today but I'm totally drained. As for difficult child and school, he has an aide who is with him all day! She's amazing and I love her! She tries her very best to help difficult child stay organized and remember assignments, etc. but there's only so much she can do. He has newspaper club on Tuesday afternoons and that's when I'm seeing a pattern of him not bringing home his homework. What's been happening is that he stops at his locker before newspaper and puts things in there. When he goes to get them after he forgets what he needs. By then the aide is long gone. What I've started doing is checking his bag before we leave the school but I still get so frustrated sometimes. That's my biggest issue lately. The anger. And it's not just because difficult child is leaving things at school. It's everything. It's just so hard sometimes and I'm finding myself losing it a lot lately. I hate yelling. It accomplishes nothing yet I can't help it. I have some coping techniques such as walking away and counting and breathing deeply. They work sometimes but not all the time. I guess I just need to take it day by day and situation by situation. Like I said, today was a good day. No yelling even though there were times I wanted to. I guess it's a start..... [/QUOTE]
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