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For me closing my eyes would have made it worse. What stops me getting it is to sit in the front of the car. But thats probably not an option so, no reading at all, no DS playing, try to stay looking forward all the time, chew chewing gum or boiled sweets - barley sugars used to be good and ginger can help too. At 38 I still suffer with it if I have to sit on the back seat of a car or if I read for as little as a few seconds I start to feel really ill. Even having to sit backwards on a train or bus can make me feel very very ill. You can buy wrist bands for travel sickness, I remember trying them for sevear pregnancy sickness with the twins. Not sure if they work though. Good Luck, I feel for him as it's a horrible feeling.

Hiya My daughters are milk protein intolerant and we don't find the diet too bad now. Everything is labeled these days and so its fairly easy to shop. The free from range of bicuits etc is good but the food itself is not really that nice however you will find that the cheaper bisuits often don't have any milk or whey powers etc in them. Bourbons, hobnobs, cheep jaffa cakes and lidl dark chocolate digestives don't have milk in them and there are loads more. Lots of soups contain milk but Big Soup don't and they love them. Our diet is very good and we don't really miss the white sauces etc, cheese is something they do miss though but they love the dairy free cheese and you can buy "melting cheese" too for putting on pizzas - it doesn't really melt but the girls don't seem to mind. Birds Eye chicken pies don't contain milk which is a plus for a quick meal! Soya ice cream and sorbets go down well here and even my son who isn't dairy free loves them and prefers them to the normal ice cream! I also buy stork pasty marg in a block for making cakes with, and the flavoured soya milks are really nice to drink - one daughter loves the plain stuff and will drink it as it is from a cup but the other can't stand it but will eat it with cereal. You could make her birthday cake, if she wants chocolate just add some cocoa power to the mix. I sometimes do that and then cover the whole cake with dark cooking chocolate which is nice and dairy free! For their last birthday I did sponge cakes filled with lots of nice strawberry jam and bought ready made soft icing and coloured it pink. You can get lots of different decorations for cakes from the supermarket ready made. I tend to use normal recipie books and replace the butter etc with the dairy free alternative. I bought some dairy free cook books but have never realy used any of them! Hope this helps.

My 8 year old told me his freind had this game and funnily enough his freind told his mum that my 8 year old has it and plays it all the time. Neither of us beleived the kids and when we asked each other about it because the boys had both been nagging us about getting one it turned out that neither of them has got this game! But they were trying to persuade us it was ok to buy it. I think you will find that all children whether NT or otherwise will tell their parents that "EVERYONE" has this or that or the other exept me sob sob - I know I did it as a child but still didn't get that thing. As soon as a child says "EVERYONE HAS IT" you know that they have made it up really, that just what they all do isn't it. His Dad has GTA which he has rarely used and it's very well hidden away and he won't let DS near it. Dad says it's ok but prefers Need for Speed Carbon because the cars drive better, DS won't be getting it, full stop. If he played it at freinds he wouldn't play it here, If his freind snuck it in here and started playing it at age 11 I would turn it off quite simply! We were at a freinds and they were playing the game in his Mums bedroom which we didn't realise I told them it wasn't suitable and turned it off - they didn't moan for long because they know it's an 18 and they aren't 18 yet - simple. But I am Bad.

I'm on the computer so not even watching, I'd rather read the newspaper online. DH is less than happy though, eg "whats that - it's a water tower - whats in it!!! - water - what do they use the water for - I don't know - why don't you know? Because I don't live there - I wonder what they use the water for - why is it there then????"

The endless back to back questions about every thing the person is saying and everything he sees! AND he doesn't understand the answers you give him so askes again!!!!!! WE are watching dog borstal now and it's doing our head in.

PMSL! DS takes all his clothes off when he goes for a poo too - it is against his law to wear clothes while pooing And cars!!!!! don;t get me started ! His head teacher actually told him just before the hols that he liked being scruffy too but "don't tell anyone - after teling him to tuck his shirt in for the millionth time and seeing all the marker pen all over his shirt!! PMSL - looks like he's admitted defeat! Oh, will wash his hands but won't ever use a towel to dry them!

I love this! Mine collects the prices from clothes shops too, and from any clothes I buy. Won't wear long trousers or long sleaved tops or jumpers, would rather be freezing cold. Won't drink out of a cup that a visitor has drunk out of ever again, their germs stay on there for ever it seems even after being washed loads of times. Collects bottle tops. Steals things from the recyling bin at school and hides them in his drawer. Loves being muddy, doesn't notice if there is food all over his face but hates other people's germs or dirt. Hates people coming up to talk to him but is very very popular. One boy he's at school with but says isn't very nice gives him sweets etc to try and make freinds - he was shocked and chuffed when I explained he wanted to be freinds and was trying everything to let him know! Has to read for an hour in the loo before going to bed! Doesn't sit on the loo but puts his feet on the toilet seat and squats like a monkey. Makes great noises that no one else can. Will hold any animal as long as it doesn't have fur Can catch a fly with his hands (never seen that done before!) Hates people touching him but invades everyones space and practically walks under your feet when out Hates noise but is the noisiest person I have ever met. He is opposite man! I call him captain argument. There are loads, I will look forward to thinking of some more I bet there will be some funny ones on here later!

He has got ADHD and Autistic spectum dissorder. She wants him to have an IQ test because he knows what he should be acting like in the tests and in therory but in reality he behaves nothing like this and doesn't cope with social situations, is rude, has meldowns and generally doesn't understand etc etc over the very things he understands in theory unless he is in a one to one situation with an adult. He passed all the tests she gave to him and he had her very confused, I was just so glad that I'd given her all the copies of what the school and Autism Outreach who observed him at school said about him because she said she would never have diagnosed ASD otherwise only ADHD. She said that it could be that he is highly intelegent and has learnt how to cope but it all gets too much at school now that it is getting harder and he has to sit still more. I have another appointment on the 15th Sept to discuss "treatment" bit worried about that bit. I am pretty sure she will be talking about drugs but don't know what to think about it yet. Hubby was saying if he needs them he needs them before diagnosis, now he is saying no way! I feel that if they make his school life easier for him and maybe get him to sit still for more than a nano second so he can do a bit of work it may be good. Hubby is now a closed book on the subject and doesn't realy want to discuss it and DS should just have to behave. At least we now have the peice of paper that will hopefully lead to a statement and help at school for him. They are very good and will do all they can to push for this statement because they are worried that if the TA that sometimes works with him leaves then DS will be totally stuffed. Rambling...........................

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I'm reading The Secret Life of a Slummy Mummy at the moment, I can relate to it totally because she main character is always late, dissorganised and has a very messy house. Ive read about 2/3 of it in about 6 months so not bad for me these days. Not very mind stretching I'm affraid! I used to go through books at an alarming pace but that slowed when I met DH and totally stopped when the kids came along.

I'm quite new so I probably wasn't missed but 'i thought I would say hello again just for the excuse to post Weve had a good school holiday here, 2 separate weeks away with family in our little touring caravan, in a field with nothing but a tap and a nice camp fire in the evenings away from all the nonsence of school and city life - how I'd love to live live like that all the time! Weather was ok apart from rain at night. Its been so nice to get up when we want and let the kids chill out and go to bed late with no stress. Back to school on Monday so the fun begins again. I hope you all had a nice summer break.

What was your boy like at 8 Enid?

Mine speeks bu the's so cocky about everything. When I say about a meltdown he's had oversomething trivial he smirks and agrees when she asks him if he did. He sits there with one arm over the back of the chair swinging the chair back and forth and smiling, he's got so cocky. He loves one to one so he will do really well at any test as he's bright, any attention from anyone is what he wants. At school he is now refusing to write at all and his poor teacher was looking into getting funding for a laptop for him tosee if that will make him do some work - but a couple of weeks ago passed a writing test at CHAMs with flying colours! So frustrating

Exactly, it does make you realise what family life can be like. We have an appointment on the 12th with his consultant, just me and DH and I am so worried that she will say he is fine and I have munchhousens (spelling is BAD) because at the last appointment she saw him on his own and all she said when they came out was that he passed all the tests, looked very sternly at me and showed us out! Anyway huge <'> coming your way, from reading your posts a mojour meltdown ain't good for you Enid. I hope things have settled down now,

Snooty Wafflelips Sounds about right really!

<'> No advise I'm afraid but you have my sympathies. I ended up moving my DS's bed time to quite late just to stop myself running up and down the stairs til late o'clock.

I think that when he started humming I would have been inclinded to tell my son loudly "It's ok, you can turn the games volume back up loud now because the man is humming at the correct volume that you can have it on" smiled and walked off. What an idiot! <'>

The girls and I have had a lovely day! I took them swimming this afternoon and we had to cross 4 roads one after the other............ it was so easy! Swimming was a dream, no stress at all because no one was saying it was rubbish/too cold/too noisy/nothing to do in here! We went to town afterwards, came home and discovered DH had taken the last loo roll with him so we had to go out again and walk to the shops - no stress/no tantrum despite very sore tired little legs. We had a picnic in the front room for tea, no mess. I put them to bed, they went to sleep straight away. No one said mummy mummy mummy mummy mummy, no one whistled, hummed, picked their nose till it nearly fell off, hit, pushed, bickered, etc. I didn't raise my voice once all day! Once a year DS goes and helps DH set up the caravan for our holiday and once a year I have a day like this with my daughters. It has been so lovely. Now I feel guilty for wishing we had a few more days. Sorry a pointless post but I needed to tell someone who won't make me feel guilty for enjoying the quietness.

Do you know, the mum who started the conversation was the very same person who told me last October that DS can't possibly be Autistic because he talks and has freinds! This was at a time when he was at his worst through finding life so very hard, his teachers were at their wits ends and were trying everything to reach him and he was like a screaming tornato at home 24/7. I only said they have mentioned a form of Autism and the school are looking into it through Autism Outreach!

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I love you both <'> Esther, I love your term of phrase! Wouldn't it be funny if I pointed them in the direction of his teacher and told them to ask her all about it. She has been waiting for his diagnosis since he entered her class last september because he is such hard work in class and she wants him to get help too! His head master even said to him a little while before the end of term " can I tell you something - I like being scuffy too, I'm just not allowed!" because DS always looks a total mess and HT always nags him about it every day! These women were once my freinds. I have no bad feelings about it now though, I'm over it and can sit quietly and let them talk.

I was just wondering - when you say he only has 2 cups of milk now is that Soya milk or cows? My twins are milk protien intolerant and when they were 3 if so much as a spoon of yoguhurt of milk passed their lips they would have very bad diaoreah! There is milk hidden in biscuits, soups, cold meat and nearly all frozen pies and chicken nuggets etc - all sorts of every day foods. These little hidden whey powders and things were enough to give them an upset tummy. They eat a huge amount of fruit and veg which never gives them a tummy upset but give them milk and let the trouser explosions commence. Their poo was always very smelly, separating, mucusy and vile when they had any form of milk. It proved almost impossible to potty train them because they pooed so many times a day and they couldn't hold it. You can ask your doctor to do a blood test to see if he is alergic to lactose, mine are not, it's the milk protein they can't have apparently! You could cut out every tiny bit of milk from his diet and just give soya milk, soya yogurt and check all labels for whey powder, lactose, etc be very strict for a couple of weeks and see what happens. If that doesn't work try cutting out the soya for a couple of weeks aswell because some people can be intolerant to that. Then slowly introduce a tiny bit of one food and see what happens. I would have to wait for a few days after introducing a food so see the effects such as squits then rash on the checks. Hope this helps a bit anyway.

I was at kids party today sat at a table listening to this conversation today......... - "ADHD doesn't exsist and it is just so wrong that people put thier kids on ritalin just for being normal boys, In our parent's day there was no ADHD just normal boys who got carried away and got a clip round the ear if they pushed it too far!!!!!!!" There was more to it............. I wonder if they were fishing to see what I would say! I thought all this was behind us!? These were women I know but don't really see much anymore because of this type of attitude. Once of them said to me "You were worried about DS last year weren't you - did you ever get it looked into or have you accepted that it's just the way boys are now!!!!!" I said its been looked into over the last year and we have an appointment during this holiday, then I changed the subject and they knew I wouldn't say any more about it. This is why I avoid the Play Ground Maffia and keep myself to myself these days. If I don't talk I can't be judged eh! Sorry, not much point to this post but I wanted to get it down on paper so to speek.