Watching and Waiting!

My husband and I have been receiving horrible reports about our son’s behaviour in school as of late. He is being disruptive to the entire class, not doing what he is asked, and throwing fits when he does not get his way, this can not continue.

When I was a kid, my mothers remedy for bad behaviour was a good beating. The black and blue bruises and welts all over me would serve as a reminder to not do whatever I did again. I refuse to raise my son in this way. It is not right and does not help the situation no matter the child. The actions that we do take however, are not working. Banning him from any games, toys or fun is not doing the trick.

We have been try to find out why he is behaving in this way all of the sudden. We have had the occasional problem in the past but, nothing to this extent. My husband thinks that it is him because, he doesn’t let Conner get away with anything like my mother and I do. And, I think it is me, because I never really spend any time with him. I get us up and out in the morning then, by the time I get home it’s time to eat dinner, take a bath and go to bed. The only day I have with him is Sunday. Even then we don’t usually do anything but go over to my mother’s home.

I feel the need to stay at home with my kids for awhile. I don’t know if it will help or not but, I really need to try. I know this will never be possible for me to do but, I can hope. Another idea I’m having is that maybe we need to look into sending him to school at Heartspring. This would be good if he can get into smaller classes and more one on one time that he needs. Also, his therapy would be right there on campus so this would minimize the time he would miss from school.

Right now we get him out of school early 3 out 5 days. Fortunately, it is at the end of the day so he doesn’t miss to much academically. But, on the flip side; academically Conner is right on target, even ahead in some areas. We don’t want him bored (which he may already be) and we don’t want him falling behind. We are going to find out more about Heartspring school and how they work with the school district to determine if a child would need this type of assistance. I have been at my whits end for awhile now, so I guess I can just add this to the list. Hopefully we will not have to go this route, but if the behaviour does not change, we may have to!

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