So- long time no talk…..I have an explanation!!  Jesse was very busy last week and then ended the week with a 3 day trip to NYC to visit some friends- Needless to say it was the worst possible week for Landon to be in a bad mood…and of course he was! He was just in some sort of funk.  Actually- he still is! Please help me get him out of it….or maybe its not a funk? Maybe this is him? Not sure…but I am very tired of his hitting, screaming and tantrums that are so embarrassing I want to crawl into my turtle shell and never come out.

Today in Speech/Sensory Class a new teacher came up to me afterwards and said, ” Landon is so smart, gifted maybe and I noticed that he does not want to do anything unless he prefers it” . Well- that comment explains Landon to a “T” this week. He was super sneaky- not wanting nap-time so he hid the bedtime book, or didn’t want lunch so he hid the booster seat etc….and his lack of participation in what activities I wanted him to do- That was the icing on the 3 tiered cake! He was not having it….no finger-painting, coloring, picking up after himself, bath-time etc…If he didn’t initiate it- he didn’t want ANYTHING to do with it…He is just so stubborn!

Landon did alot of hitting, screaming, scrathcing and biting this week. This is how he shows me that he is not interested in something or if he is mad at me. I wanted to go down an aisle the otehr day at Target and he flips out into a full blown hestriycal fit becasue he wants to go down the toy aisle. With that- I said no toys and boy was it a scene. Throwing things, kicking and screaming at me. But I stood my firm ground and no toys did we see. Instead we went right home and I gave him no reaction for the whole car ride home.

I am becoming more and more concerned with his behavior. I do what the experts tell me, what the books say etc…but nothing seems to regulate him. He gets over angry and over sad if that makes sense. He can not regulate his emotions. Thank God I have a meeting with the Brown Center for Study of At Risk Children Sept 30th. Maybe they can give me the answers I am looking for or give me direction onto the right path of action.  If anyone thinks their child is stubborn- I dare you to take care of Landon for 1 day! He is the most stubborn person I have ever met!! And I mean that- because until now- I was the most stubborn person EVER!!!!!

” Time has a way of demostrationg that the most stubborn, are the most intelligent”. – Yevgeny   Yevtushenko
(Russian Poet & Writer)

Still a proud mama- JOY