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My sweet big lump of sugar kid

American Woman

American Woman

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Our 11 year old son is the sweetest (big) lump of sugar. He's home schooled mostly because he has a mild form of terretts syndrome (different ticks) and the kids would tease the daylights out of him. We live in the country and there isn't any kids around for him to play with. The church we go to has a good youth group and that's good for him. We go to an assisted living home almost everyday to see his Grandmother, and his best friend is a young adult girl that lives there, and is about his level age and they play video games together. I'm tell'in you all this to show you a little what he's like. Because he's around mostly older people he tends to be naive sometimes.
Today at the assisted living home while visiting his Grandmother I'm told that he put catchup packets under the toilet seat in the men's bathroom. When one of the residents sat down the packets squirted catsup all over! He thought it was blood. The girl that lives there got blamed for it, and had to rat out her little friend. When I was done talking to him he was crying and feeling so bad for hurting these people. He read about the prank in a kid's magazine and tried it. I explained to him that it would have been funny if it were done on another kid. I took him into the office and he apologized thru tears and crying, and I made him write sentences.
I couldn't high five him....I felt so bad because he really didn't understand the damage he'd done, and it broke his heart when he did.
 
My nephew John is 29 and has a mild form of Tourette's, Cory, so I understand what you're talking about.

He was made fun of in school as well when he was 5, until it was found out what the problem really was.

He's a gorgeous, funny fella and I love him to pieces.:smile:
 
We had him in private school thru the first grade and there was a bully there that had the whole school picking on him :furious:
I'm afraid to put him on medicines, and hope he will grow into or out of it.
 
He's a boy with all that entails.

I went to a boys only grammar school. At the end of term in a chemistry lab, I bubbled acetylene gas through silver nitrate to make silver acetylide, which is an extremely unstable compound, especially when it dries out. I smeared it on the underside of the toilet seats in the boys room. When some guy walked in and slammed the toilet seat down, the silver acetylide exploded and blew the commode apart. Hell, you talk about being in trouble. At that time I thought I was inolved in the start of WW3. Corporal punishment was still used in schools then and you can believe that I was beaten but good.

Ketchup isn't all that bad. If that's the worst thing that he does in his life then you have one good kid on your hands.
 
American Woman said:
We had him in private school thru the first grade and there was a bully there that had the whole school picking on him :furious:
I'm afraid to put him on medicines, and hope he will grow into or out of it.
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Your beautiful boy is who he is.
Work with him, as I know you do.
You said it was a mild form (diagnosed?)
I wouldn't worry about it.. keep him in the world, show him much love and just be the best parents you can possibly be.
He'll adjust to things as he grows older.
I wouldn't put him on any meds right now.
John was on a few that only seemed to heighten his anxiety state (as I recall-it's been so long ago)
My brother and his wife chose to forego any of that, and he turned out just fine.
 
He was diagnosed and we are hoping he out grows it. We were told that most people learn to control the ticks with age. The thing that worries me lately is he gets headaches when his ticks are bad.
 
EastTexFrank said:
He's a boy with all that entails.

I went to a boys only grammar school. At the end of term in a chemistry lab, I bubbled acetylene gas through silver nitrate to make silver acetylid , which is an extremely unstable compound, especially when it dries out. I smeared it on the underside of the toilet seats in the boys room. When some guy walked in and slammed the toilet seat down, the silver acetylide exploded and blew the commode apart. Hell, you talk about being in trouble. At that time I thought I was inolved in the start of WW3. Corporal punishment was still used in schools then and you can believe that I was beaten but good.

Ketchup isn't all that bad. If that's the worst thing that he does in his life then you have one good kid on your hands.
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That was a good one :tongue: The hardest part about being the adult now is not cracking a smile when you are being told of their bad behavior.
 
my son has a friend who's father is a Tourette's sufferer.

i say sufferer and to be honest that's wrong....he suffers not in the slightest.he is not bothered by this in the slightest and has the greatest sense of humour i think i have ever come across....every year he throws party's for the kids on Halloween ect and he if anything make fun of himself and points out in a very strong way we are all different in some way or the other.

your son seems to enjoy a prank....don't be too hard on him and i wish him a great future.

make sure he is himself at all times:thumb:
 
Thanks Kimmi, That's good advice. My son has a good sense of humor too. The other night both the kids were at a bithdayparty at the bowling alley. My son comes over and sits down and starts taking his shoes off because they are uncomfortable on his feet. He was complaining about being tired and he was done bowling. He said he was tired and "hotter than a fat guy at a fire convention" He is always comming out of the blue with funnies like that.:yum:
 
American Woman said:
Thanks Kimmi, That's good advice. My son has a good sense of humor too. The other night both the kids were at a bithdayparty at the bowling alley. My son comes over and sits down and starts taking his shoes off because they are uncomfortable on his feet. He was complaining about being tired and he was done bowling. He said he was tired and "hotter than a fat guy at a fire convention" He is always comming out of the blue with funnies like that.:yum:
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hahaha thats great.....your son and mine would get on great.....

my son(he is 15) had a PE written exam last week and failed(he is tops on everything else just dont have sports interest)his teacher said he knows he can do better and he replied "move on sir your in denial":yum:

kids are just great.:thumb:
 
kimi said:
my son has a friend who's father is a Tourette's sufferer.

i say sufferer and to be honest that's wrong....he suffers not in the slightest.he is not bothered by this in the slightest and has the greatest sense of humour i think i have ever come across....every year he throws party's for the kids on Halloween ect and he if anything make fun of himself and points out in a very strong way we are all different in some way or the other.

your son seems to enjoy a prank....don't be too hard on him and i wish him a great future.

make sure he is himself at all times:thumb:
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Thank you Kimi. I don't think I could have beat him hard enough to hurt him near as bad as he felt, once he understood about the man being scared. No, he was not punished in any way other than to apoligize.
Before my Dad passed in Dec. '04, my parents would ocassionaly take him with them out of town to a Dr.'s appointment, etc. and eat at a Golden Corral. More than once they came home telling how another diner would give him 1 or 2 dollars for being so good. One time the waitress was having a bad day, & the look on her face was that "oh no, not another %&$#@ kid" look. When they left, the waitress refused to charge them for his meal. He is that sweet, that polite.
Yes, God really blessed us when He gave us Larry Ancel.
And we let him be his-self, and guide him the best we can.
Cory & I are very proud of him.
 
my sons 6ft2inch tall and says its his God given right to look down at people....

but must say when kids behave in public it says a great deal in my eyes of the upbringing they have had.:thumb:
 
I took him into the office and he apologized thru tears and crying, and I made him write sentences.
I couldn't high five him....I felt so bad because he really didn't understand the damage he'd done, and it broke his heart when he did.
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Sounds like a kid with a very good, kind heart. :smile:
 
When he was about 3 we walked in the room where a nature show was on tv, showing a spider wrapping up another bug. We had to change the channel.
 
when my daughter was about 4 she cried every time Lion King was shown and Simba's father died.......she is coming up to 13 and we still laugh at her about it:thumb:
 
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