SS7 spent the weekend at his grandparent's house and will be home today. As usual, my anxiety about his return started last night and has continued througout today.

DH and I fell on our faces trying to work together to discipline SS7 last week. So.... I came up with a plan. Our therapist told us to stay positive with SS7 and to try to avoid any negatives with him. THIS, is impossible when every other word out of SS7's mouth is disrespectful. So I came up with a positive behavior chart for him where he'll earn stickers for every good behavior he has. DH and I will sit down with him for 10 minutes every night and go over positives.

For DH and I, I came up with list of rules (my list of demands for respect, I like to call it) for DH and I to abide by. For each rule there is a punishment, like if he receives a bully note or gets caught stealing he won't visit his grandparents for a month. Or if he throws a temper tantrum about eating his veggies, he'll go directly to bed and miss out on 15 minutes of free time with DH. I tried to make the punishment equal to the offense. For each offense he will be punished immediately and then we will drop it and go back to positives.

I also made up a chart for DH to fill out daily. I'm doing this because DH seems to think it's SS7's teacher job to have to complete these behavior charts every day, every 30 minutes to keep up with SS7 behavior.

I'm praying this works. Cross your fingers for us.