-=> NANCY BACKUS wrote to GARY PERKINS <=-   
      
    -=> Quoting Gary Perkins to All on 06-01-11  16:43 <=-   
      
    GP> My son is such a crybaby.  All I hear all day long is whining.  I'm   
    GP> starting to think something more than ADHD is wrong with him, too.  He   
    GP> does lots of handflapping, twists all over the couch, etc.  Hates being   
      
    NB> How old is he?   
      
   He's about to turn 5.   
      
    GP> touched, very sensitive about washing his hair.  Sounds pretty   
    GP> familiar. So, earlier today he got pretty dirty playing outside.   
    GP> Whined the entire time I helped him finish his bath.  Later, he was   
      
    NB> When my son was little he would scream any time I tried to wash his   
    NB> hair... I finally just talked his father into doing it... he was a   
    NB> little more restrained for him.  He finally grew out of it, though.   
      
   Yeah, you're right about growing out of it.  Just seems like he's a little   
   behind on some things.   
      
   He's finally starting to get better about the hair.  I was able to get him   
   to trust me to lay him back in the water and not get water in his face.  He   
   still bitches now and then.  Now that we're starting to get past the bath   
   troubles, everything else is going to hell...lol... he's getting very hyper   
   and defiant on everything else, seems like.  sigh...   
      
    GP> playing on my exercise machine.  I'd told the kids many, many times not   
    GP> to play on it; not so much because I was scared of it being broken --   
    GP> it's a hand-me-down, but actually because I didn't want them to get   
    GP> hurt on it.  But, they learn the hard way. Brie is big enough that I   
    GP> don't have to worry too much about her, but sure enough, Hayden did   
    GP> something as I stepped outside to roll up my car windows.  I heard a   
    GP> big yelp as I was walking back in, and he was hopping around on one   
    GP> foot.  Scraped a couple of toes somehow.  Fifteen minutes later, he's   
    GP> still screaming...  and this boy has some LUNGS.   
      
    NB> Some kids just do have to learn the hard way...  Too bad you have to   
    NB> deal with the lungs, though... ;0   
      
   Yep..  Both my kids break all the rules every day.  Then bitch at me when   
   they get punished for it.  I had a little talk with my 7 year old a few   
   minutes ago; in about thirty seconds I named off 7 major rules right off   
   the top of my head that she breaks every day...and I'm like, come on now.   
   *Every* day.  All day.  Climbing on the back of the couch, climbing on the   
   dresser, playing around in the kitchen, grabbing junk food in the middle   
   of the night/early morning, letting the cats in, playing in the bathroom,   
   hitting/pushing/pinching/bullying her brother (more than is normal)...   
   This is every day, several times throughout the day.   
      
   The most exhausting part is that I have to repeat commands four or five   
   times...she's like "But, it's just..."  I have to keep reminding her that   
   "just" doesn't make something right...lol.  I'm still trying to remember   
   to use counting.  Oftentimes, I'm just so dumbfounded, I'm like "Get off.   
   Get off!  Get OFF!  GET OFF!!!" :p   
      
       
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