Viper

Looks like smiley beat me to it.

Maybe this site can help you a bit. I'll keep looking for you. http://www.makaton.org/

It is hard having DH away but he gets paid well so I think I'll learn to live with it. Plus I get 3 nights sleep without him snoring all night. One of the things that worries me about my cousin is that super man is so much like him and his psych has said they won't rule out Bi-polar in hm until he is older.

Maybe try an alternative remedy, ask in a health shop what they recomend.

Super man has been on Respiridol since May. He is on a very low dose (0.2ml twice a day) but it seems to be having an effect, most of the time. I give him his first dose at 10am and the second at around 9pm. My question is, should he be having the second dose earlier? The reason I ask is because we were not told when to give the doses, just to give 2 a day. Now does Respiridol wear off after 8 hours like pain relief or is it a case of it having a culminative effect, whereby as long as he has the doses twice a day it will stay in the system? I need to know is because he seems to become aggressive and anxious in the early evening. I don't know if this is caused by the drug wearing off or that he clashes with my DD. I am really wondering if he needs to take it before he goes to bed. He doesn't have any anxiety in his sleep so am I giving it correctly? Anyone who's kids are on this drug, when do you give it and how many doses?

This is a new one on me, what do you all think?

I've had some really positive things happen and some not so. To answer a few questions first. I still HE my super man and he is doing extremly well. I did a reading test on him, one they use in schools, and he has a reading age of 11 and 3 months, (he'll be 7 in September) His maths is also extradinary, with him knowing his 2,3,5,and 10 times tables, plus all the usual stuff like adding and taking away. I don't claim any credit for all this, he is just a very high functioning autistic, I think if he was hard to teach I would have given up by now. Having said all that, on the other side of things, he is still in nappies, so some you win eh. We now have a DX After fighting for 5 years we finally got the answer in May that he has ASD, what a suprise eh. With severe anxiety, with a question mark over Bi-polar disorder. They can't DX a child in this country with Bi-polar, but agree it is a possibility. He is on respiridone to reduce the anxiety and in theory stop his aggression. As he is so young and tiny, he started taking a very small dose, 0.1ml, I have to gradually up the dose, he is currently on 0.2ml. It isn't making much difference yet but only time will tell. We got the DX from CAMHS in the end, from a very nice team of Pshchcologists and phsychiatrists. Other family member news. Dodo has officially left school but is going back in September for sixth form further education, we are waiting for her exam results. My youngest DD (12) is now a model and will be doing adverts on TV. She has an agent that wants to get her a liscence to talk and act on TV too, so that sounds exciting. She was offered a part in a Bold ad but it was too short notice , we have to get permission from the school and didn't have enough time. My DH is now a fully qualified French train driver. He was the first British employed driver to drive a french train on french soil. He also won an award for excellence in March. We had to go to York railway museum to recieve the award. We stayed in a 5 star hotel and the award cerimony was like the Oscars, with red carpet, champaign reception, it was amazing. The downside is that he spends half his time in France now. Sunday morning to Wednesday evening. Now the really sad news. In October, my cousin commited suicide. He had Bi-polar and jumped in front of a high speed train. He was 43. I am still devastated. I loved him like a brother, we grew up together, he was a wonderful man with so much to give. At his funeral 4 of his ex girlfriends turned up with one flying in from Japan. They all said they still loved him and he had kept in touch with all of them. He met the Japanese girl whilst over there, he then came home and learnd to speak Japanese, then brought her here for a year. He was such an intellegent man, nothing ever stopped him from learning more. I am still very upset by it, he broke my heart when he died, I only wish I could have told him how much I loved him. Well that's all I can think of for now. If you got to the end, well done and thank you for reading my drivvel.

Thank you all so much, it's good to see all the old familiar names again. Although I can't wotk out who LittleRae is. I worked out who Smallworld was though. Sallya, my kids are all well thanks and my mad parrot is still mad and naked. Would love to see you and the kids again, Ben still says your boy is his best friend. I have lots of news so I think i will start another thread to keep things clear.

Have a look at this link, it tells you all about the programme and the DR. http://www.education.ucsb.edu/news/release...supernanny.html

Hello everyone. As some of you know, I've not been around for a year or so. Those who know me from then will know why. I don't want to rake over old coals, so I will just say I am sorry for any upset I may have caused and hope you will accept me back into the fold. I look forward to (hopefully) catching up with everyone and meeting all the new members here. A lot has happened in my family in the past year but will tell you all about that when I know if I am welcome here or not. I have made my appologies to the Admin and mods, who have accepted, for that I thank them. I wanted to give the members a chance to say if you want me here or not. Thank you for reading this and I will understand fully if you object to my return.

Hi Loraine. No I've moved to another forum. Don't post here any more, only posted today to alert you all to the programme tonight. Thought it was of interest to you all but I was shot down in flames again. Hence why I no longer post here.

Monday ITV1 8pm.

I must admit if I didn't have any experience of AS I wouldn't have known. They did make a brief statement that the parents had sought medical advice, but that could have been about a boil on his bum, it could have easilly been missed. It could have gone a long way to highlight the problems faced by parents and AS kids, but no mention was made.

Badonkadonk, again I thank you for your invaluable insight. The steps you have suggested are excelent. When I watch these programmes I always think I could do that but can never remember how, so to have it written down is excellent. The main problem with my husband is that he works away, so when he comes home Ben is disrupted and we tend to make allowances for him. But I know that is wrong. Dh has the biggest problem with being consistent as he wants things to be "nice" while he is home but can't see that he is not helping by being lenient. I am already working on a behaviour plan with rules and rewards for him, These will be stuck up prominantly and we must stick to them. I am also waiting for an appointment with camhs so I can get more advice or maybe (fingers crossed) a DX. Thank you again for your help.

badonkadonk, thank you for being so open about this. I know it's down to how I handle Ben but I need to know how to do that. I currently have no DX of anything concrete (possible AS and ODD) keep being told he is complex and a bright boy so he will cope. I don't want him to cope I want him to succeed in life and need to know how to help him. The reason I say I can see this for us in the future is because there is no help or advice on how to help him. All the time out techniques don't work with him, he just gets more violent. I can't talk to him about any of his problems because he just screams in my face so I can't get through to him. I desperately want to change our behaviour to ultimately help him but where to begin, I just don't know. I know there is a lovely boy in him, he can be so sweet, and I know he doesn't want to be the way he is but I need a starting point to help him. I do what I can to make life for us as livable as possible but I do feel I am fighting my husband as well sometimes. I just get something in place and he does the opposite so that doesn't help. If we could have some advice on strategies that we could all stick to it would make life more simple.

I haven't posted for some time but had to reply to this. That boy was my son in 6 years. He has ODD and AS traits. I was horrified to see what the future holds for us all. Until last night I though, and had been told that he would get better as he got older but that looks very unlikly. That boy lived in a middle class family, something the presenter made very clear, she said that bad behaviuor crosses all social clasess. Ben even watched some of it and when i asked him he said "I know he's like me, just don't talk about it, why don't you just die?" He found it very uncomfortable to watch. Apart from the swaering he was a carbon copy of Ben.

Your thoughts are much appreiciated. <'>

Thanks everyone.

I will take some time off but I don't think I can come back. We'll see.

Thank you Kathryn, I thouroughly enjoyed chatting to you and all the others. Shame it's all been tainted really.

wasn't good to see me then?

No Lisa, Herne bay is about an Hour and a half from me, I live in New Romney, Romney Sands holiday village is about Ten minutes away by road or if we walk out of our back garden gate into the farmers field we can walk to marly farm holiday camp in about 2 minuets, we use the swimming pool all year round. You would be one of those ###### tourists that descend on us every year that we all moan about then.

http://www.camilleallen.com/camille_allen4.htm Here Lisa, a link to buy online, there aren't any available right now but you can be put on a list to be notified when more are. I don't know how much they cost, bet they are expensive. Oh and they are made of polymer resin, not Marzipan, that is an urban legend.

http://www.joe-ks.com/archives_oct2005/MarzipanBabies.htm Was sent this by my sister in law in Germany. They are reported as being made of marzipan but then there are denials. I don't care what they are made of, they are brilliant and sweet.

Just seen the weather forcast, looks like the rain might miss the Bay. Fingers crossed.