Homeschooling and Prozac - Part 2 - More added 4/23/11
It has been about a month since we started homeschooling the kids and since Charlie started taking 10 mg of Prozac.
I have been keeping notes on the medicine, so that we can make an informed decision as to whether it is helping him or not. Here are my notes:
2/2/11: Noticed Charlie was not hyper fixated on his nightly bath ritual.
2/3/11: Charlie organized his Nintendo DS games in a case, after he yelled that he had lost one and I mentioned to him that I keep all of our pencils and pens in a container on the telephone table. He immediately went and found his pencil box and put all of his games into it.
2/3/11 Charlie turned off the television without having to hold his ears or screaming. Normally, he would not be able to stand the flash and sound of the TV shutting off.
2/3/11: Charlie let Dad read him a story. A first!
2/8/11: Charlie had a very bad bedtime with screaming.
2/22/11: Charlie was eating at the table and the cat brushed his foot. Instead of screaming, he actually picked up the cat and moved it into the other room. The other cat was nearby and he did the same with that cat. This was the first time in his life that he, of his own volition, touched an animal.
As far as the home schooling goes, the kids love it. Charlie is a bit lonesome for his friends, but we occasionally see them around town. When asked, he always chooses home schooling over going back to Northern Potter, as do the other kids.
4/23/2011: We have taken Charlie off of the Prozac. He was (and is) having trouble with his stomach, headaches and he is hitting himself even more than before. We don't know how much of it is possibly the onset of puberty or maybe a bug of some type, but we know that we never did see anything stellar. More than likely, all of the positive things that we saw happening were and are because of the homeschooling.
On that topic, he is doing quite well. Sometimes it is still like having to pound nails into concrete to get him to want to sit and learn a bit, but he is less stressed out and we are more in tune with what he can and can not understand verbally.
With Charlie, it begins and ends with his ability to understand the words. The school lost Charlie when the teachers spent years with him and never followed through. They would ask him if he understood a word and he would say YES! Well, they needed to ask him what that word meant, because he does NOT understand a lot of what they felt that he did.
So in many ways we are starting over to try to determine what he does know. Another question is how much can he retain. That is still a big question.
I have been keeping notes on the medicine, so that we can make an informed decision as to whether it is helping him or not. Here are my notes:
2/2/11: Noticed Charlie was not hyper fixated on his nightly bath ritual.
2/3/11: Charlie organized his Nintendo DS games in a case, after he yelled that he had lost one and I mentioned to him that I keep all of our pencils and pens in a container on the telephone table. He immediately went and found his pencil box and put all of his games into it.
2/3/11 Charlie turned off the television without having to hold his ears or screaming. Normally, he would not be able to stand the flash and sound of the TV shutting off.
2/3/11: Charlie let Dad read him a story. A first!
2/8/11: Charlie had a very bad bedtime with screaming.
2/22/11: Charlie was eating at the table and the cat brushed his foot. Instead of screaming, he actually picked up the cat and moved it into the other room. The other cat was nearby and he did the same with that cat. This was the first time in his life that he, of his own volition, touched an animal.
As far as the home schooling goes, the kids love it. Charlie is a bit lonesome for his friends, but we occasionally see them around town. When asked, he always chooses home schooling over going back to Northern Potter, as do the other kids.
4/23/2011: We have taken Charlie off of the Prozac. He was (and is) having trouble with his stomach, headaches and he is hitting himself even more than before. We don't know how much of it is possibly the onset of puberty or maybe a bug of some type, but we know that we never did see anything stellar. More than likely, all of the positive things that we saw happening were and are because of the homeschooling.
On that topic, he is doing quite well. Sometimes it is still like having to pound nails into concrete to get him to want to sit and learn a bit, but he is less stressed out and we are more in tune with what he can and can not understand verbally.
With Charlie, it begins and ends with his ability to understand the words. The school lost Charlie when the teachers spent years with him and never followed through. They would ask him if he understood a word and he would say YES! Well, they needed to ask him what that word meant, because he does NOT understand a lot of what they felt that he did.
So in many ways we are starting over to try to determine what he does know. Another question is how much can he retain. That is still a big question.
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