Saturday July 19th

     Vanessa, hi I have a suggestion that might work for you.  I just saw the Psychologist on Wed. July 16th for my mnthly one on one session w/him, I was discussing w/him how my son (who's 9 in half) got a smart mouth & how he's so direspectful to me when I ask or tell him to do something.  He suggested that I ground him from his most favorite toy/thing he likes to play with & have him write certain amount of sentenances that is a appropriate for his age (I am choosing 50 for my son) & the object is that my son doesn't have a set amount of time to get them done in, but the other object is that he can't have his toy/thing back I've grounded him from until the sentenaces are done (so if it takes my son per say 2 wks to get the sentenaces done then he will get back the toy/thing back then).  He also said that if any of the sentenace are not legible that my son has to rewrite them so that they're legible so, so lets say that my son finished all 50 sentences but 15 of them are not legible then he has to write those 15 all over again until they're legible.  My suggestion would be for your son to start w/maybe 10-15 sentences to begin with, since I don't know how well he writes or what he's like but the decesion is up to you to decide the amount of sentenaces that you think your son is able to write.  If this helps let me know, my son as of right now has to write 150 sentences (cause he has 3 different sets of sentences he has to write cause of his attitude/behavior, smart mouth & disrespectfulness he was given me last night).  My son has one of the older versions of the Gameboy Pockets & it's his favorite thing to play w/so right now he's grounded from it until he gets all 3 sets of the sentences fininshed & they're all legible.  I hope that this will give you maybe some ideas to work with, just hang in there & take one day at a time.  I have been dealing w/my son's type of behavior he has now since about the middle of November 2006, his behavior is a little better now since we started seeing a Psychologist in January of 2007 since his behavior was also slipping pretty good in school as well & they're the ones who suggested that I take him to see a Psychologist to help me get his behavior under control.  The school also knew that I was trying everything & doing the best I could do to get him to behave like a child w/ADHD should who was his age, we still have a long road we are going down but we have made some major progress w/the road that we have been going down since we started seeing the Psychologist in Jan. 2007.  Take Care & Keep Up the Good Work, even though some days are harder than others, just remember to take one day at a time & hope the day after a bad day is a good day.  I am also a single mom myself, so I know how you feel & what you are going thru, again Take Care - Heather & son Kaleb