Night Moves

A few weeks ago, I posted about the Monster getting moved from the nursery into his ‘big boy bedroom’ (see, “G’bye Mommy!  G’bye, Abba!“).

We hear from a lot of our friends about the problems they have with their neuro-typical kids about moving into the big-kid bedroom at some point.  We have friends whose kids yell and scream until they’re retrieved when they’re in there.  We have others who have figured out that any gate in front of the door is hardly an impediment and manage to break out of solitary on a regular basis on their own. Continue reading

Back to Normal

This morning was the Monster’s first day back at school in almost two weeks.

Over the vacation, we obviously didn’t keep him to his ‘real’ schedule for lack of having any way to do that.  As I’ve mentioned, there was a very large issue with behavior, due to the order of his life breaking down with that regard. Continue reading