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Dad reports:
Tommy has me near speechless.
He has slept in school everyday. His planner (our way of communicating with school) was hidden behind books in his class. He has earned a detention for repeated lateness to one of his classes.
Tommy continues to yell for the slightest reasons although his outbursts are becoming shorter. The 2.5 year old now yells at Mom everytime Tommy does.
Our therapeutic approach? We are basically not demanding anything of any of the kids. We are shooting for zero stress and total happiness. Tommy yells and we try hard to maintain. Tommy insults and we resist the urge to call him an asshole. We ask Tommy to bathe he barks “I want to go to sleep” so we let him. If we don’t there is yelling so loud that all our ears hurt, I end up forcefully removing Tommy from the house and he yells at the neighbors for ½ an hour to an hour, the kids cry, the toddler copies Tommy, Mom has contractions, and I end up so stressed that I cannot work on anything other than going to bed.
Tomorrow Tommy will smell horrible. I will be unable to get him up early to bathe but I’ll try anyway. This morning he missed his bus then gripped because “we” were making him late to school. I wonder if he’ll miss tomorrow.