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Funnily enough right now my son who is 5 is shouting at me because i am trying to get him to sleep without me. He has been swearing occasionaly for 2 years but lately it is constant . Every other word is sh##,punctuated by stinky fart bum.I have tautght him swearing is only for emergencies if you stub your toe or have a near miss in a car. Alot is from school . hoping he gets bored soon if I keep ignoring it. I know it shouldn't annoy me so much but it just seems such a shame as he has an amazing vocabulary. What worries me more is the violence of the language like 'I'm going to set light to your hair' or about hating god and blowing up his house or more oddly putting something stinky on gods arm that won't come off. He has said he hates god for what he did to granny - but I don't know whether he really means it. I'm not particularly religious but it doesn't seem very healthy. Then again he asked to say his prayers(coz he saw the Sound of Music) and siad what about god bless god! so maybe all is not lost. Back to the swearing though - my little boy doesn't swear at school just all the rest of the time. Makes you feel like your doing some thing wrong. whilst bouncing happily on a friends trampoline he was saying' your mum smells of stinky sh##pooh farts.' I feel like I am always moaning about him but I just feel worn down and he seems cross whatever we do . often it seems because if he is doing something nice he is worried about it coming to an end.

Funnily enough right now my son who is 5 is shouting at me because i am trying to get him to sleep without me. He has been swearing occasionaly for 2 years but lately it is constant . Every other word is sh##,punctuated by stinky fart bum.I have tautght him swearing is only for emergencies if you stub your toe or have a near miss in a car. Alot is from school . hoping he gets bored soon if I keep ignoring it. I know it shouldn't annoy me so much but it just seems such a shame as he has an amazing vocabulary. What worries me more is the violence of the language like 'I'm going to set light to your hair' or about hating god and blowing up his house or more oddly putting something stinky on gods arm that won't come off. He has said he hates god for what he did to granny - but I don't know whether he really means it. I'm not particularly religious but it doesn't seem very healthy. Then again he asked to say his prayers(coz he saw the Sound of Music) and siad what about god bless god! so maybe all is not lost. Back to the swearing though - my little boy doesn't swear at school just all the rest of the time. Makes you feel like your doing some thing wrong. whilst bouncing happily on a friends trampoline he was saying' your mum smells of stinky sh##pooh farts.' I feel like I am always moaning about him but I just feel worn down and he seems cross whatever we do . often it seems because if he is doing something nice he is worried about it coming to an end.

My sons obsessions are pylons ,telegraph poles, wires, insulators and basically asking me over and over again what would happen if he touched the live wire, would it be zzzzzzzp! Some times he likes me to say yes & sometimes no which can be tricky. I have spent far too much time staring blankly at substations ( if this is indeed the right word ) and explaining the 'danger of death' signs which he never tires of. I got him a circuit board game but oddly he isn't that interested it seems to be the thought of the danger that is the thing. He seems to love the exitement of thinking about danger although in reality he is a rather cautious child when he hasn't lost it that is. I find the repetition is what does my head in but definately the more I try to put him off the subject the longer it goes on , so on a good day I think right lets talk right through this whole pylon thing then and then he will maybe be satisfied for a while. Sometimes this works. Other times I cluck like the metal chicken on the clangers . It does worry me though ,that he continually wants to talk about being electricuted or other mishaps . I tried 'lets talk about something more cheerful' and he suprised me by agreeing.

Since the program 'My family & autism' people keep telling me to try a gluten dairy free diet.My son (nearly 4) has pasta and cheese alot ,like alot of children.He doesn't show any signs of a physical reaction .eg no diarroah, sickness,headaches.Occasional constipation -but then he never eats any vegetables .I am wondering if these sort of symptoms are always attached to an intolerance. People seem to think that if I managed to stop him eating this diet he would suddenly lose his anxiety, be calm, stop hitting and tantruming. I did go & get gluten free pasta, flour and made cakes & bread but he wouldn't go for it and ate nothing quite happily.Its hard to get him to eat at all alot of the time he just isn't all that interested.Seems to be getting bigger everyday though!