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<blockquote data-quote="Hound dog" data-source="post: 474799" data-attributes="member: 84"><p>Aww geez ((((hugs)))))</p><p></p><p>Holidays were hard with Travis. He got keyed up waaaaaaay beforehand. So I learned. I found creative outlets for his excitement. Holidays such as Easter were a bit tougher as there isn't a ton you can really do. Halloween......we'd make paper bag masks, I'd buy construction paper and they'd make the house decorations, I bought all the cartoon specials I could and set up movie nights with popcorn. That way it wasn't all about the T or T stuff. And it was fun too. </p><p></p><p>And no, holiday activities NEVER depended on behavior. Otherwise, Travis would never have been included in any holiday activities. Because to some extent he honestly could not control it when the excitement mounted and normal daily schedule got altered. And yeah, holidays were still rough. I also learned to watch for any and all triggers and to avoid them at all cost, when I couldn't avoid them.....I took it in stride. I never expected a single holiday to be absent of difficult child behavior, I knew it would be present in one form or another to one degree or another. I mentally prepared myself for every darn holiday.</p><p></p><p>Now that I made our holidays sound like torture.....lol........honestly, they weren't. Because of activities to defuse the excitement, we formed many family traditions that still stand today.......and we wound up getting much more out of the holidays in just being together than many other people I know, which also is still present today. We've found it to be helpful to defuse the holiday excitement of easy child kids as well as difficult child ones. </p><p></p><p>I want to ask how difficult child was before he started medications? Have they actually done him good in any real sense of the word? And yeah I know that different folks react differently ect. I'm not against medications. I'm just asking because I don't know his history that well yet. And I DO know that medications made Travis violent as all get out, when my son is normally the most docile kid in the world for the most part. And your difficult child and Travis are similar in so many ways. Travis also has a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), his is birth trauma as well as a stroke at 18. I decided to forget medications with him because it wasn't worth the off the wall violent behavior they triggered hoping to find something that helped. Travis did far better off medications than on them. There were still a ton of issues, of course given his dxes, but yeah. So we stuck to his carbatrol which was his seizure medication and dropped everything else. </p><p></p><p>I thought I'd ask now while he's in patient because if there is a chance that not just the lamictal that could be causing some of the over the top issues he's having, in hospital is the place to find that out by doing a medication wash. Or just weaning him off and seeing if his behavior really is worse without them. Know what I mean??</p><p></p><p>Like I said, not at all anti medication, just wondering if they're possibly having the same effect on him as they did Travis.</p><p></p><p>((hugs))</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hound dog, post: 474799, member: 84"] Aww geez ((((hugs))))) Holidays were hard with Travis. He got keyed up waaaaaaay beforehand. So I learned. I found creative outlets for his excitement. Holidays such as Easter were a bit tougher as there isn't a ton you can really do. Halloween......we'd make paper bag masks, I'd buy construction paper and they'd make the house decorations, I bought all the cartoon specials I could and set up movie nights with popcorn. That way it wasn't all about the T or T stuff. And it was fun too. And no, holiday activities NEVER depended on behavior. Otherwise, Travis would never have been included in any holiday activities. Because to some extent he honestly could not control it when the excitement mounted and normal daily schedule got altered. And yeah, holidays were still rough. I also learned to watch for any and all triggers and to avoid them at all cost, when I couldn't avoid them.....I took it in stride. I never expected a single holiday to be absent of difficult child behavior, I knew it would be present in one form or another to one degree or another. I mentally prepared myself for every darn holiday. Now that I made our holidays sound like torture.....lol........honestly, they weren't. Because of activities to defuse the excitement, we formed many family traditions that still stand today.......and we wound up getting much more out of the holidays in just being together than many other people I know, which also is still present today. We've found it to be helpful to defuse the holiday excitement of easy child kids as well as difficult child ones. I want to ask how difficult child was before he started medications? Have they actually done him good in any real sense of the word? And yeah I know that different folks react differently ect. I'm not against medications. I'm just asking because I don't know his history that well yet. And I DO know that medications made Travis violent as all get out, when my son is normally the most docile kid in the world for the most part. And your difficult child and Travis are similar in so many ways. Travis also has a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), his is birth trauma as well as a stroke at 18. I decided to forget medications with him because it wasn't worth the off the wall violent behavior they triggered hoping to find something that helped. Travis did far better off medications than on them. There were still a ton of issues, of course given his dxes, but yeah. So we stuck to his carbatrol which was his seizure medication and dropped everything else. I thought I'd ask now while he's in patient because if there is a chance that not just the lamictal that could be causing some of the over the top issues he's having, in hospital is the place to find that out by doing a medication wash. Or just weaning him off and seeing if his behavior really is worse without them. Know what I mean?? Like I said, not at all anti medication, just wondering if they're possibly having the same effect on him as they did Travis. ((hugs)) [/QUOTE]
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