Hi Kristina,

I have had kind of the same problem, but with my two boys, simultaneously, , we have  been transitioning from hitting, kicking, trowhing things all over the room, not listening to me, name calling, even a not so long ago my little one would bite me if he was angry. Now, slowly we are having a more peaceful way of life. No more hitting, no more kickinng, name calling is decreasing....

 

I do believe in behavior therapy.

I have been lucky to find a person who told me about a method called "The nurtured heart approach" and she works with the boys on a weekly basis (and with me!). This method is explained in a book titled "Transforming the difficult child. The nurtured heart approach". Authors are: Howard Glasser and Jennifer Easley.

You can find the book in amazon, or even at local public libraries (but you can have the book a week or so...)

You can have a look at the book here (the website allows you to read some pages...):

http://www.amazon.com/Transforming-Difficult-Child-Howard-Glasser/dp/0967050707/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1205289885&sr=8-1

I don't know what is the diagnosis of your boy, my son is Asperger and the little one we still don't know ( I am on waiting list to see Dr. Morton) but certainly I can say he requires a lot of patience since he has a very difficult behavior that it's now decreasing or less frequent.

This method has practically  saved my life. I am a single mother and without this method, I don't know where I could be now.

I just want to give you hope. Give this method a try.

I would not lie to you, it requires a lot of work in terms of  patience, consistency. It requires consistency. It requires that you, as a parent, are willing to learn new patterns about how to raise a child. But I can tell you this: so far this is the BEST method I have found in 9 years, and I have tried many. The approach has so many positive things, one of the best is  that it teaches you how to use your energy as a parent more wisely, and it allows to have that connection you wish to have with your child.



You should contact the social worker of your school and ask for counselors that are maybe familiar with this approach/method and find them.

Wish you luck, if you have more questions, please, email me.

Munia.


Kristina <rath725@...> escribió:

Hitting, pushing, kicking, name calling - you name it and Collin's
doing it ALL THE TIME! We decided to have his blood work done again
to see if we're missing something in that department.

We found out that his iron level dropped to 20 - down from 36 - over
the past month. Dr. Morton has increased Collin's daily doseage and
has also recommended giving daily Alpha Omega-3 DHA supplements,
which we started on Friday evening.

The major thing Dr. Morton recommended is getting Collin into
behavior counseling with a child psychologist. All of the
psychologists at Carle's Champaign-Urbana campuses are booked until
late July (sigh), but there is a psychologist at Carle's Mahomet
clinic (Dr. Kathryn Fair) that had an opening on March 17th. She is
not a child psychologist and doesn't have a tremendous amount of
experience with children who have ASDs, but she said she'd be happy
to meet with us/Collin and collaberatively work with the child
psychologists at the Champaign-Urbana campuses to implement behavior
counseling for Collin.

Is this something any of you would do? Should we just wait it out
until late July to ensure that he's seeing a psychologist that deals
specifically with children? We booked the appointment with Dr. Fair
for March 17th because we think something is better than nothing at
this point, but I'm just a little unsure. Any advice or encouraging
words would be nice ;o)

Also, what do you do at home about the hitting, pushing and kicking?
I mean, it's to the point that any interaction we have with him, or
that he has with ANYONE, results in non-stop aggressive behavior.
Even his early childhood teacher and morning preschool teacher have
discussed with us how much more aggressive behavior he is
displaying. Granted, he has only been in those classrooms for a few
weeks (transitioning from a daycare center he'd been at for 2 years),
so I know part of his aggressive behavior has to do with the
transition. But I know there's something much more than that causing
all of this (call it mother's intuition!).

HELP!!!!!! (and thank you)

Kristina Rath

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