elaine1

it is mean too, as u know clocks went back an hour. well i woke at four o clock lay there for an hour and got up, thinking it was about 6 and nooo it was 5!. my son who has been jumping about all week was awake at 3 apparently, he was downstairs watching tv. leave the clocks alone i say, i cant see any advantage to it at all. thats my rant over!

yes i would think it is routine, after all there is noone to keep an eye on his welfare, now he isnt at school. i dont think anyone is accusing you of neglect. the term social services covers a wide area, but ppl automatically think it means child abuse.

my daughter wants a pink one with a dachsund (sp) lol for xmas. god help us!

mine too he loves it. we have now had to buy the dvd with three films on it cos theyre his new obsession lol

you can buy humane traps i think, look on the net bet someone sells them.

god almighty, cant one person tell another vital things like this. surely info could have been passed from one nurse to another. This is my big bugbear with schools they only have two kids at my sons school with aspergers, yet they cant pass on info from one yr teacher to another. everytime he moves years i have to explain it over and over again to his new teachers. give me strength!

I always ask friends and rels to give money it saved oodles of issues.

my son dosent play outside but my friends son does, he has dyspraxia. he is always going off with ppl and forgetting to tell her, he goes into friends houses too without saying where he is going, but he loves to be out with the kids. What do you do? he is 12 by the way

wow u have a lot to cope with all at once. my son had a carer when he started school and then the ed said they couldnt fund her any more. she was brilliant with him too, he really missed her for a long time, but he got used to it in the end. what choice do they have?

Oh i was going to get that for my daughter but i didnt know if it was any good, thanks for the recommendation

I do, my son is 12 and never sleeps before 12 midnight any night. I have tried melatonin and had some success.

oh missed that one!

the child psychologist - up until then no-one believed me i dont think.

weve never had holiday clubs for our kids. My son is 12 now and has never been to a playscheme at all. We have to amuse them ourselves, I dont mind actually cos at least i know where he is and what hes doing!

I do think there should be freedom of choice. We are rapidly turning into a nanny state - our kids need to have the freedom to choose what to eat. They do know whats good and bad for them, removing it from the menu wont help. That takes away the reasoning part of life. Some schools are now going through the lunchboxes and taking out crisps and chocolate - excuse me but havent the moms taken the decision to put htose in in the first place - what message is that giving the kids. Its like saying your mother cant make informed or sensible choces so were making them for her!!! Im on my soapbox now lol

wow congratulations. you are so brave! I would love to do that but my son is 12 and fear he wouldnt get the education he needs. good luck with it though <'>

Nope i doubt if youre alone in this, every day life gets priority over my emotions - one day im gonna pop! : <'> wub:

My 10 yr old does some of her ironing, only a few items but she does do it quite well. She is supervised through out though. Never know she may take the whole lot over one day lol I hate ironing with a passion!

Oh its hard isnt it. I got rid of all my kids stuff and now the house is full of grandkids stuff, you cant win really lol

I would def ask the school to keep him in at break. At least you know nothing is going to happen then till the autism team go in. good luck with it all

congratulations - i love this forum - glad weve got it

yes he does, he's 12. but he hates being in the dark

I dont know where our local Parent Partnership group is. will have to find out

Oh wow i saw this, i dont know how his mom coped, although i must say i didnt like the families reaction to him, their language etc. Nor the fact that they ostracised? their daughter for leaving home. Her father said he needed her suppourt, hello who is the parent here?

Congratulations, every little bit helps