Mr. B and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Mr. B had a really rough day at school yesterday. He had to leave his class twice to regroup, had a hard time following directions, poured glue all over his desk, drew on another childs leaf and bit the teacher. One phone call and one email later (one from each of his teachers) and know I have a son who is out of control. I don't know why he had a hard day, especially since he had a fantastic morning at home, but we have noticed (AH & I) that the "hyper" part of Mr. B's AD/HD has been in overdrive the past few weeks.

So as a result I talked extensively with Mr. B this morning about our two house rules, no hitting & no pushing, and school behavior (same rules apply there too). He assured me he would follow the rules.

I stuck close by him all morning and he "forgot" the rules often and as a result got to spend a large chunk of time in the "timeout corner". For the most part I really try to avoid timeouts because if they are used more than 3 times a day they are not working (so we learned from a parenting consultant/expert) BUT in the case of physical violence it is an automatic timeout, no exceptions.

After sending him off on the bus I hoped that my diligence would pan out for his teachers today. Well, I just got an email from one of them and he did GREAT! He even earned his reward (computer time) for doing so well in class.

Way to go Mr. B!



Now I only have to stick to him like glue for the next 13 years. :P