Splat Goes Life.

Sometimes I really hate when my kids say that. In this case, I just jinxed myself. Yesterday, I was thinking to myself while cleaning that maybe this is the school year when my kiddo is going to make a real turn-around. He has had his really rough moments- locking his teacher out of her classroom, slamming the door in her face, calling her an "Onion Head"... the usual things we've grown accustomed to. :( But then there have been really great moments, like him being a real leader in a group of students. There have been instances of other boys (some of them new friends) coming up to him to ask about a particular game that is popular among their age group. Moments when the teacher pulled Jack out of class to tell him just how impressed she is with him. Jack made up with the boy he didn't like, he has had a better experience (so far) with the bus driver.. his number one enemy here is himself. Yesterday, he left his classroom because he was getting upset. This is t...

So, our summer was.. decent, for the most part. We kept Jack on the same medication and dosage that he'd been on since before school started. As expected, there wasn't any reason to change it. In fact, I wanted to lower it, but whatever.. There were only a few incidents that I would consider "blow ups", one of them having to do with a discussion on behavior this coming school year. I think another had to do with a problem at a neighbor's house, and then another probably was just an off week for him I half expected our summer to be taken up with boys running in and out of my house all day long. First off, thank God that's not what happened. Second, I feel bad for Jack because I imagine that's how he expected it to go, too. One boy apparently told the others "let's get Jack to make fun of himself". Of course Jack didn't want to play with him after that. Another boy was just too damn bossy, and Jack told him as much. He never came ba...