Peanut, Shrimples and Co: Schools Back FROM Summer

So we have been getting Peanut ready or School for the last few weeks, social story’s, Visual schedules, setting up a study /therapy room for him.

This is how it went down ….

Part 1

Day 1

So keen to start hurrying us up to get dressed and out the door and then as soon as we got to the car park the Shit hit the fan!!! he was crying not screaming but fighting enough that I had to carry him in and refusing to do anything asked of him the scripting was at an all time high.

The Teacher lead him out the door at pick up time and with a funny look on her face

I said “ not a great day ?” and I got a big thumbs down and “a Scripting was High and compliance low”, We shared a chuckle “ I’m not surprised” “ Yep it will take him time to get used to New routine”

We got home and he was still unsettled and that’s when I start self blaming - I should of I shouldn’t have .. BLAH BLAH BLAH ( no help to any one big old BLAH ) So we sit down and ease into the new school year with just 15 minutes of home therapy he settles with the chance to earn some gold doubloons and Ive finally worked out why he was so upset! He wanted to go to the school with the princess, Every time I mentioned school he would say princess when I picked him up he said "Hi mummy .. go princess" I had no idea what this ment until after therapy he pointed to Clarkson crest on his Visual schedule and said " Clarkson .. Princess up the stairs down the stairs" and Bang it hit me Peanut was in the class for just over an hour 10 weeks ago but what did he play with a castle a fairy princess castle !! God its hard having to be either a mind reader or a detective but we got there in the end.

Its all confirmed as he keeps wanting to put his Hulk t-shirt on cause it was the t-shirt he was wearing on that day so now he thinks its his princess school uniform LOL

Ive told him again and again and showed him on visual schedule but although he was listening he didn’t want to understand so Snap to

Day 2

Started off same him excited about school and me blurting out “ No princess school today Merriwa school” every 15 – 20 minutes, undressed as he was searching for his hulk t-shirt ( which is in the wash) so he is walking around nudy but then after that it was pretty uneventful he went to school without a hitch still wasn’t 100% but getting better.