Perfectly Human

moving to an area where I can find community support while I’m raising my son. My arm is swollen and difficult to move. I was hit by a toy during a fit, while homeschooling. (My son is up to my shoulders and weighs 25 pounds less than me. I’m starting to worry at times without community support because his physical strength already is equal to my own.)

My son’s autistic and timeouts, turn into chaos. So… I tried a new approach. I put the toy in time out, so my son could understand what he did.

The toy, sat on top of the big book shelf until my son could explain to it why “it” was in time-out and was ready to apologize to me. But, first I talked to him about the fit, behavior (what was acceptable and not.) He calmly took about 30 minutes to think about what to say to his toy. He kept returning to it and asking if it was ready to talk and apologize to “Mom.”

It worked much better than putting my son in time-out. He usually argues that the toy did it, not him. Now, both were held accountable and taught a lesson. 🫤 Also, now Mom can’t do the fun things we normally do outside everyday. So… there’s ongoing consequences for being mean and hurting me.

*sorry, posted before editing… 😱 it will probably stay this way for a minute.