Summertime...

Well we made it though another school year. I know Caleb's teacher is pleased that the year is over. The last few months have been a bit trying for me. It's been really busy since my last posting in April. Going back to the fire incident.... nothing really much anymore. I think most of it was blown out of proportion and he's completed the fire safety class and the ban from the rec center has been finally lifted. Just in time for the summer and they are starting their summer camp so the rec will pretty much be off limits for the daytime anyways. Caleb will going to a different summer camp anyways. We will probably go back to the drawing board and have Caleb re-evaluated to make sure we are on the right path with him. I had to speak with the Special Education Dept. concerning Caleb. The still want to put him in a self contained classroom which I don't want. But behavior wise, I don't know, it may be what is needed for this time. Which leads to the discussion of being suspended from school..... yep, the end of the school year brought Caleb a 5 day suspension for having a major melt down behind his cell phone. He decided to tear up the principal office, cussing and fussing. It was a real mess. A 5 day suspension lead to a 5 day grounding and 5 days of me suffering, him whinning and crying about how unfair all of this was. His suspension ended just in time for the last week of school. He is still full of ups and down and major meltdowns when things don't go his way. I am looking for an anger management program w/ conflict resolution. He needs it. Lately it has proven difficult to find an anger management program for children his age. I think I have found on though, but with that might come re-evaluations. I think that that maybe the best thing and oddly enough his father agreed with me. I still think maybe Caleb might have autistic tendencies. He has some repetitive nature to him and how he has to have stuff. If I mention it to his father, I am simply spoiling him and catering to his whims. Which isn't true. It just saves time to let him do somethings, as long as he isn't hurting himself or others. It's not going to kill me to watch t.v. in my room, although it would be nice to chill in my living room. He has certain ways he does stuff and if he can't do it that way then well there could be problems. I don't know we'll have to see what the e-val comes up with.