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<blockquote data-quote="HosLaw" data-source="post: 608779" data-attributes="member: 16993"><p>Thanks to you all so far. Here's the "more info" I obviously forgot:</p><p></p><p>Sports:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Soccer at age 3 - would just run around doing whatever he wanted to do (pick up bugs, pick dandelions, try to dismantle the little goals, or pick up the ball and play "keep away" from the entire team & coach).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Gymnastics from 3-present - has "good days" and "bad days". He's very good at the exercises, when he cooperates. Other times, he'll just lay on the floor & roll around like he wants to take a nap. Still others, he'll run off to an older group of kids to try to join their activities - he has run across the big open floor area where the big-kids are doing their routines & almost gotten clobbered.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Swimming - took one summer of organized classes at around 3, and from then on has just swam at our home pool every chance he gets. He's a total fish, and at 4 could swim by himself unaided - both above & below water. At 4, he could even dive to the bottom of our 8 1/2' pool by himself to retrieve toys. He loves the water, and I let him swim pretty much any time he wants.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">TBall - last summer (age 4). Again, good days & bad days. Good days, he could hit, throw, and run with the rest of the kids. Bad days, he's throw a tantrum and sulk off to the outfield, or just sit in the middle of the infield and draw in the dirt. On a bad day, he'd pretend he didn't have the strength to lift the bat, and would just stand at the T, bat on the ground, and stare out at the other team with a smirk on his face.</li> </ul><p></p><p>I'm hoping to get him back into organized swimming (maybe even a team) next summer, and hopefully PeeWee football the fall after that (when he's turning 6) . . . maybe a good, hard hit might jar his brain back to "normal" <em><strong>[I JOKE, I JOKE!]</strong></em>.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Diet:</p><p>We've tried no (low) sugar, no red dye, no processed food, etc. Nothing has made a difference. One of his best days ever at school was a day that I let him eat pancakes & syrum for breakfast, and then a donut before school - enough sugar to kill a horse . . . his teacher called us that day to tell us he was "the perfect kid" that day and "was the best behaved kid in the class." WTF?</p><p></p><p>We haven't tried no gluten or dairy . . . but frankly, milk is his favorite thing in the world . . . I'd be stunned if that was it.</p><p></p><p>He eats pretty healthy in general - he loves carrots, and fruit of almost every kind (we called him "our little fruit-bat" when he was a toddler - there were occasions where he would eat so many raw blueberries that his stool would look like purple PlayDoh!).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HosLaw, post: 608779, member: 16993"] Thanks to you all so far. Here's the "more info" I obviously forgot: Sports: [LIST] [*]Soccer at age 3 - would just run around doing whatever he wanted to do (pick up bugs, pick dandelions, try to dismantle the little goals, or pick up the ball and play "keep away" from the entire team & coach). [*]Gymnastics from 3-present - has "good days" and "bad days". He's very good at the exercises, when he cooperates. Other times, he'll just lay on the floor & roll around like he wants to take a nap. Still others, he'll run off to an older group of kids to try to join their activities - he has run across the big open floor area where the big-kids are doing their routines & almost gotten clobbered. [*]Swimming - took one summer of organized classes at around 3, and from then on has just swam at our home pool every chance he gets. He's a total fish, and at 4 could swim by himself unaided - both above & below water. At 4, he could even dive to the bottom of our 8 1/2' pool by himself to retrieve toys. He loves the water, and I let him swim pretty much any time he wants. [*]TBall - last summer (age 4). Again, good days & bad days. Good days, he could hit, throw, and run with the rest of the kids. Bad days, he's throw a tantrum and sulk off to the outfield, or just sit in the middle of the infield and draw in the dirt. On a bad day, he'd pretend he didn't have the strength to lift the bat, and would just stand at the T, bat on the ground, and stare out at the other team with a smirk on his face. [/LIST] I'm hoping to get him back into organized swimming (maybe even a team) next summer, and hopefully PeeWee football the fall after that (when he's turning 6) . . . maybe a good, hard hit might jar his brain back to "normal" [I][B][I JOKE, I JOKE!][/B][/I]. Diet: We've tried no (low) sugar, no red dye, no processed food, etc. Nothing has made a difference. One of his best days ever at school was a day that I let him eat pancakes & syrum for breakfast, and then a donut before school - enough sugar to kill a horse . . . his teacher called us that day to tell us he was "the perfect kid" that day and "was the best behaved kid in the class." WTF? We haven't tried no gluten or dairy . . . but frankly, milk is his favorite thing in the world . . . I'd be stunned if that was it. He eats pretty healthy in general - he loves carrots, and fruit of almost every kind (we called him "our little fruit-bat" when he was a toddler - there were occasions where he would eat so many raw blueberries that his stool would look like purple PlayDoh!). [/QUOTE]
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