Alex has had a rough time lately, not sure what is going on. He refuses to do anything I ask him to do, and purposely does everything I ask him not to do. When I finally get him to use the bathroom after minutes of arguing, he sits on the toilet and says, "fine, I'm sitting here in the bathroom, but I am not going to go." The dog has been taking turns sleeping in the kids room and when he is in one of the girls rooms, Alex will go in and wake them up. He says it is because he wants to take the dog out so it doesn't pee in the house, but when he wakes up at 5, no one, not even the dog wants to get up. I have told him to wait until the dog gets up on his own and he can take him outside then, but I still find myself arguing with him way too early in the day.
This morning I sent him to his room for waking Olivia up by peeling off all of her covers to get to the dog, and asked him to stay in there quietly and think about following the rules. As I am downstairs pouring my first cup of coffee, he enters the kitchen dressed in some crazy outfit. He has about 3 pairs of shorts on, 2 shirts, a sweater, tie, and hooded sweatshirt on top of that, with a baseball hat on backwards. He tells me he is "Bat Boy" and he is here to save the town from bad things. He says the dog is "Bat Dog" and has to stay with him to help. I asked him if he had remembered why he had to go to his room and he said yes, but he didn't have time to talk about it, he was a superhero and had to get to work.
His little charade got us through the morning, but when it came time to get on the bus, more trouble. His regular driver, who he adores, is away for the next two days at a wedding and Alex has a sub driver. He still has a hard time with change in his routine, and he started saying he isn't going to school, he isn't getting on the bus, he doesn't like the driver, etc. It took quite some time to convince him to try the new driver, but he finally agreed to get on the bus and go to school. The deal was that instead of working for one reinforcer at the end of the day, he got to pick two today. Whatever works! Not even 5 minutes later I hear honking in the driveway and look out to see the bus back. Major panic attack hits as I run outside. Well it seems he told the driver he had to go the bathroom so badly he couldn't hold it until they got to school. So she turned around and told him he could go at home. Soooo, of course I go to unbuckle him and he has the biggest smile on his face,"Hey mom!" I followed him inside and he told me he needed privacy so he shuts the door and comes back out again about 5 seconds later. "Did you really go? Did you even have to go?" He just smiled and said,"Not really." And this is just Alex testing the waters and showing everyone who really runs the show......poor driver.
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