Hi there, I am new to this community as the head of SEN at my son's school recommended it. I have a 9 nine year old who is not diagnosed, but having increasing meltdowns at home over lower threshold triggers albeit normally when tired at the end of a week. I suspect it is partly the exhaustion of masking at school as he has never had one at school and is generally well behaved.
His meltdown last night came after my wife hadn't come to give him his towel so he could get out the bath because his sister had a nosebleed which needed attention and as I am a teacher and was in the study preparing lessons for the week and was unaware. By the time my wife called for help, our son was refusing to get out the bath and had scooped most of the water onto the floor.
what was looking like a calm Sunday evening then turned into a challenging evening with bedding being thrown, water being poured and things being broken with our son eventually falling asleep exhausted at 10.30pm after finally sitting down to watch a nature programme I had put on tv and pretended to be watching to catch his interest.
We are really struggling, but my wife is very anti-labels and diagnosis and thinks it should be manageable through our own research and finding coping mechanisms and avoidance strategies.
i would love any advice people have or just someone to say they understand what we are going through. Thank you in advance.
