His night routine is as follows: dinner; brush teeth; sit on toilet to try to go; then bath. After bath, put on nighttime diaper; pajamas; say goodnight to whoever is home; read a book or two; prayers and get rocked to sleep or if I'm tired, I will just lay next to him for a song.
Tonight, when I went in to get him ready for his bath, i noticed he had peed on the floor. I have gotten lots of advice about how to handle different behaviour from his therapist. When he first started peeing on the floor, she told me to calmly tell him to clean it up and then move on. It worked that time and I think after that it happened one more time or maybe twice. One time he got his feces and he spread it on the wall and all over the rugs and bathrooms. I used the same strategy. I told him to clean it and walked away until he was done. He didn't do that again with his feces.
So, I told him to clean the pee today off the floor and he started crying that I had slapped him. I said, I didn't slap you. He cried that I had hurt him. So, I walked away but it was non stop screaming that he was hurt and that he couldn't clean up the pee cuz his arm hurt. It took about a 45 minutes of screaming before he finally cleaned up the pee. I then put him in the shower and he continued crying that the water was cold. It was on the hot side of warm. I let him wash himself and then I got him out. I was in a hurry to put him to bed and end the ordeal that now had been going on over an hour. I didn't give him time to dry himself completely but instead hurried and put his pajamas on him. He was crying hysterically that he needed to dry himself off.
ARGH. I said good night.
I'm done.
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