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<blockquote data-quote="LoonyAlana" data-source="post: 619341" data-attributes="member: 17555"><p>Well... my son (the 5 year old) got suspended from school for several days for headbutting the assistant principal. Though at first, CPS implied that the investigation is a waste of time, now they are implying that we might be found guilty of negligence (despite ALL the things we are doing, appointments we have scheduled) unless we place our son in a mental hospital. At this point, honestly, I'm ready to do so. He has wonderful days that make me doubt how 'bad' it gets, and then it gets bad again and I wonder how I could ever NOT think that it's 'that bad'. I'm probably not making sense anymore... </p><p></p><p>Like over the weekend, he was relatively well behaved, earned a special reward... I was even listening to The Explosive Child (I got it on audio)... and then just last night he wasn't allowed to watch what he wanted on the TV as punishment for getting suspended. He was actively trying to push my face into a pillow (trying to smother me) while saying, "You can't breathe, how do you like that?" I could breathe just fine, he wasn't actually cutting air off from me like he thought. But I don't know how to 'open the eyes' of my husband, and make him see that at least when I'm home with the boys (and he's at work) it often is open season for our 5 year old to try to hurt me. Well, it's not like he's premeditating it, I don't mean to make it sound like that. He's just so aggressive, and his first response to limit setting is to explode, and to hurt me and anything around him. I don't want CPS to find us guilty, especially since I've been taking him for evaluations and all that kind of stuff. I've been trying, we have appointments with a psychiatrist (it's only 15 days away at this point)... basically, I've reached a point where I DO think he, at least temporarily, needs to be put into a facility just to try and get medications rolling and even him out. But I think it's a gross misjustice for CPS to label me as a neglectful parent (not that they have yet) when I've been trying. The only way insurance will even cover an in-patient stay is if I bring him to a facility in the middle of an episode. But, during an episode I'm trying to keep him from hurting anyone, and I can't just drive him in the middle of a tantrum, no matter how close the facility is. It's like I'm stuck in this catch-22, damned for anything and everything I do.</p><p></p><p>@[USER=7170]helpangel[/USER]... that's an appropriate analogy with the raft. I've felt like we take one step forward, then get pushed a mile back while being pelted with rocks and ridiculed. I feel like everything is working against me. The pediatrician threatened to drop us, and we think she was the one to sic CPS on us. All because I wanted to work with my insurance for referrals rather than her office.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LoonyAlana, post: 619341, member: 17555"] Well... my son (the 5 year old) got suspended from school for several days for headbutting the assistant principal. Though at first, CPS implied that the investigation is a waste of time, now they are implying that we might be found guilty of negligence (despite ALL the things we are doing, appointments we have scheduled) unless we place our son in a mental hospital. At this point, honestly, I'm ready to do so. He has wonderful days that make me doubt how 'bad' it gets, and then it gets bad again and I wonder how I could ever NOT think that it's 'that bad'. I'm probably not making sense anymore... Like over the weekend, he was relatively well behaved, earned a special reward... I was even listening to The Explosive Child (I got it on audio)... and then just last night he wasn't allowed to watch what he wanted on the TV as punishment for getting suspended. He was actively trying to push my face into a pillow (trying to smother me) while saying, "You can't breathe, how do you like that?" I could breathe just fine, he wasn't actually cutting air off from me like he thought. But I don't know how to 'open the eyes' of my husband, and make him see that at least when I'm home with the boys (and he's at work) it often is open season for our 5 year old to try to hurt me. Well, it's not like he's premeditating it, I don't mean to make it sound like that. He's just so aggressive, and his first response to limit setting is to explode, and to hurt me and anything around him. I don't want CPS to find us guilty, especially since I've been taking him for evaluations and all that kind of stuff. I've been trying, we have appointments with a psychiatrist (it's only 15 days away at this point)... basically, I've reached a point where I DO think he, at least temporarily, needs to be put into a facility just to try and get medications rolling and even him out. But I think it's a gross misjustice for CPS to label me as a neglectful parent (not that they have yet) when I've been trying. The only way insurance will even cover an in-patient stay is if I bring him to a facility in the middle of an episode. But, during an episode I'm trying to keep him from hurting anyone, and I can't just drive him in the middle of a tantrum, no matter how close the facility is. It's like I'm stuck in this catch-22, damned for anything and everything I do. @[USER=7170]helpangel[/USER]... that's an appropriate analogy with the raft. I've felt like we take one step forward, then get pushed a mile back while being pelted with rocks and ridiculed. I feel like everything is working against me. The pediatrician threatened to drop us, and we think she was the one to sic CPS on us. All because I wanted to work with my insurance for referrals rather than her office. [/QUOTE]
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