Re: what's the most annoying thing your kids do?

June 13, 2011

Tell him it is not nice. Talk to him before you go in the store. Keep him distracted. Feed him in the store. Give him a list of groceries to find. Let him sit in the back of the shopping cart w/ an electronic game and zone out. ???

To: autism-aspergers Sent: Sun, June 12, 2011 9:11:18 PMSubject: what's the most annoying thing your kids do?

mine is when I take my 5 year old son shopping, he is very observant of EVERYTHING he sees and just blurts out stuff that is inappropriate. e.g. baby got no shoes, baby got no socks. this is within earshot of the mother of the child and sometimes we get strange looks. any advice as to how to break him out of this behaviour?

June 13, 2011

great ideas. I will try them out next time we go out.

Tell him it is not nice. Talk to him before you go in the store. Keep him distracted. Feed him in the store. Give him a list of groceries to find. Let him sit in the back of the shopping cart w/ an electronic game and zone out. ???

To: autism-aspergers

Sent: Sun, June 12, 2011 9:11:18 PMSubject: what's the most annoying thing your kids do?

mine is when I take my 5 year old son shopping, he is very observant of EVERYTHING he sees and just blurts out stuff that is inappropriate. e.g. baby got no shoes, baby got no socks. this is within earshot of the mother of the child and sometimes we get strange looks. any advice as to how to break him out of this behaviour?

June 13, 2011

Sure, my son's most annoying behavior right now is biting his hands, fingers, toes, eating his boogers, picking his nose. He doesn't know what do do with down time w/ his hands. That and th sniffle....sniff, sniff, sniff.....ugh! Drives me nuts! Snif...

To: autism-aspergers Sent: Sun, June 12, 2011 9:15:50 PMSubject: Re: what's the most annoying thing your kids do?

great ideas. I will try them out next time we go out.

Tell him it is not nice. Talk to him before you go in the store. Keep him distracted. Feed him in the store. Give him a list of groceries to find. Let him sit in the back of the shopping cart w/ an electronic game and zone out. ???

To: autism-aspergers Sent: Sun, June 12, 2011 9:11:18 PMSubject: what's the most annoying thing your kids do?

mine is when I take my 5 year old son shopping, he is very observant of EVERYTHING he sees and just blurts out stuff that is inappropriate. e.g. baby got no shoes, baby got no socks. this is within earshot of the mother of the child and sometimes we get strange looks.

any advice as to how to break him out of this behaviour?

June 13, 2011

for that, I have a box of tissues on the kitchen bench, within easy reach for my kids but not accessible by my 17 month old son who would just pull all the tissues out of the box. as soon as I hear them sniffle, I ask them to go to get a tissue and blow their nose then bin the tissue as it has germs and is yuck. so far it is working.

Sure, my son's most annoying behavior right now is biting his hands, fingers, toes, eating his boogers, picking his nose. He doesn't know what do do with down time w/ his hands. That and th sniffle....sniff, sniff, sniff.....ugh! Drives me nuts! Snif...

To: autism-aspergers

Sent: Sun, June 12, 2011 9:15:50 PMSubject: Re: what's the most annoying thing your kids do?

great ideas. I will try them out next time we go out.

Tell him it is not nice. Talk to him before you go in the store. Keep him distracted. Feed him in the store. Give him a list of groceries to find. Let him sit in the back of the shopping cart w/ an electronic game and zone out. ???

To: autism-aspergers

Sent: Sun, June 12, 2011 9:11:18 PMSubject: what's the most annoying thing your kids do?

mine is when I take my 5 year old son shopping, he is very observant of EVERYTHING he sees and just blurts out stuff that is inappropriate. e.g. baby got no shoes, baby got no socks. this is within earshot of the mother of the child and sometimes we get strange looks.

any advice as to how to break him out of this behaviour?

June 13, 2011

It worked with our son - eventually.Â Just before his 16th birthday

he got tired of both parents nagging him to "blow your nose!" and

finally gave in.Â Before then, it was just constant sniffling

whenever he had a cold.

Â

for that, I have a box of tissues on the kitchen bench,

within easy reach for my kids but not accessible by my 17

month old son who would just pull all the tissues out of

the box. as soon as I hear them sniffle, I ask them to go

to get a tissue and blow their nose then bin the tissue as

it has germs and is yuck. so far it is working.

On 13 June 2011 11:21, R.

Tucker

wrote:

Sure, my son's most annoying behavior right now

is biting hisï¿½hands, fingers, toes, eating his

boogers, picking his nose.ï¿½ He doesn't know what

do do with down time w/ his hands.ï¿½ That and th

sniffle....sniff, sniff, sniff.....ugh!ï¿½ Drives me

nuts!ï¿½ Snif...

ï¿½

From:

Ponzio

To:

autism-aspergers

Sent:

Sun, June 12, 2011 9:15:50 PM

Subject:

Re: what's the most

annoying thing your kids do?

ï¿½

great ideas. I will try them out next

time we go out.ï¿½

On 13 June 2011

11:14, R. Tucker

wrote:

Tell him it is not nice.ï¿½

Talk to him before you go in the

store.ï¿½ Keep him distracted.ï¿½

Feed him in the store.ï¿½ Give him

a list of groceries to find.ï¿½

Let him sit in the back of the

shopping cart w/ anï¿½electronic

game and zone out.ï¿½ ï¿½ ???ï¿½ï¿½

ï¿½

From:

Ponzio

To: autism-aspergers

Sent:

Sun, June 12, 2011 9:11:18

PM

Subject:

what's

the most annoying thing your

kids do?

ï¿½

mine is when I take my

5 year old son shopping,

he is very observant of

EVERYTHING he sees and

just blurts out stuff

that is inappropriate.

e.g. baby got no shoes,

baby got no socks. this

is within earshot of the

mother of the child and

sometimes we get strange

looks.ï¿½

any advice as to how

to break him out of this

behaviour?

June 13, 2011

Oh my goodness, no way can I deal with this for another 7/8 yrs!!

To: autism-aspergers Sent: Sun, June 12, 2011 9:45:37 PMSubject: Re: what's the most annoying thing your kids do?

16 years of that? OMG!

that is severe!

It worked with our son - eventually. Just before his 16th birthday he got tired of both parents nagging him to "blow your nose!" and finally gave in. Before then, it was just constant sniffling whenever he had a cold.

for that, I have a box of tissues on the kitchen bench, within easy reach for my kids but not accessible by my 17 month old son who would just pull all the tissues out of the box. as soon as I hear them sniffle, I ask them to go to get a tissue and blow their nose then bin the tissue as it has germs and is yuck. so far it is working.

Sure, my son's most annoying behavior right now is biting hisï¿½hands, fingers, toes, eating his boogers, picking his nose.ï¿½ He doesn't know what do do with down time w/ his hands.ï¿½ That and th sniffle....sniff, sniff, sniff.....ugh!ï¿½ Drives me nuts!ï¿½ Snif...

ï¿½

To: autism-aspergers Sent: Sun, June 12, 2011 9:15:50 PMSubject: Re: what's the most annoying thing your kids do?

ï¿½

great ideas. I will try them out next time we go out.ï¿½

Tell him it is not nice.ï¿½ Talk to him before you go in the store.ï¿½ Keep him distracted.ï¿½ Feed him in the store.ï¿½ Give him a list of groceries to find.ï¿½ Let him sit in the back of the shopping cart w/ anï¿½electronic game and zone out.ï¿½ ï¿½ ???ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½

To: autism-aspergers Sent: Sun, June 12, 2011 9:11:18 PMSubject: what's the most annoying thing your kids do?

ï¿½

mine is when I take my 5 year old son shopping, he is very observant of EVERYTHING he sees and just blurts out stuff that is inappropriate. e.g. baby got no shoes, baby got no socks. this is within earshot of the mother of the child and sometimes we get strange looks.ï¿½

any advice as to how to break him out of this behaviour?

June 13, 2011

Persistence does pay off - sometimes Â Now if I could just get him

to clean his teeth without being told.Â Or keep up to date with

homework.Â I guess we can't expect too much

Â

16 years of that?

OMG!

that is severe!

On 13 June 2011 11:43,

Riley

wrote:

It worked with our son - eventually.Â Just before

his 16th birthday he got tired of both parents

nagging him to "blow your nose!" and finally gave

in.Â Before then, it was just constant sniffling

whenever he had a cold.

Â

for that, I have a box of tissues on the

kitchen bench, within easy reach for my kids

but not accessible by my 17 month old son

who would just pull all the tissues out of

the box. as soon as I hear them sniffle, I

ask them to go to get a tissue and blow

their nose then bin the tissue as it has

germs and is yuck. so far it is working.

On 13 June 2011

11:21, R. Tucker

wrote:

Sure, my son's most annoying

behavior right now is biting

hisï¿½hands, fingers, toes, eating his

boogers, picking his nose.ï¿½ He

doesn't know what do do with down

time w/ his hands.ï¿½ That and th

sniffle....sniff, sniff,

sniff.....ugh!ï¿½ Drives me nuts!ï¿½

Snif...

ï¿½

From:

Ponzio

To: autism-aspergers

Sent: Sun,

June 12, 2011 9:15:50 PM

Subject:

Re: what's

the most annoying thing your

kids do?

ï¿½

great ideas. I will try

them out next time we go

out.ï¿½

On

13 June 2011 11:14,

R. Tucker

wrote:

Tell him it is

not nice.ï¿½ Talk to

him before you go

in the store.ï¿½

Keep him

distracted.ï¿½ Feed

him in the store.ï¿½

Give him a list of

groceries to

find.ï¿½ Let him sit

in the back of the

shopping cart w/

anï¿½electronic game

and zone out.ï¿½ ï¿½

???ï¿½ï¿½

ï¿½

From:

Ponzio

To:

autism-aspergers

Sent:

Sun, June 12,

2011 9:11:18

PM

Subject:

what's the

most annoying

thing your

kids do?

ï¿½

mine is

when I take my

5 year old son

shopping, he

is very

observant of

EVERYTHING he

sees and just

blurts out

stuff that is

inappropriate.

e.g. baby got

no shoes, baby

got no socks.

this is within

earshot of the

mother of the

child and

sometimes we

get strange

looks.ï¿½

any

advice as to

how to break

him out of

this

behaviour?

June 13, 2011

After every single cold/flu/upper respiratory yuck, my daughter ends up sniffing for weeks or months after. I agree, it is SO annoying!

Kiara

To: autism-aspergers Sent: Sun, June 12, 2011 8:37:39 PMSubject: Re: what's the most annoying thing your kids do?

We do the same thing, but it's become a "tick" or something. We make him leave the table, blow his nose, then go wash his hands, then the next second he's doing it again and has to wash his hands again! Everyone is always sick in our house and he even has a booger wall next to his bed where he picks his nose and wipes the boogers on the wall.....lovely right?

To: autism-aspergers Sent: Sun, June 12, 2011 9:25:16 PMSubject: Re: what's the most annoying thing your kids do?

for that, I have a box of tissues on the kitchen bench, within easy reach for my kids but not accessible by my 17 month old son who would just pull all the tissues out of the box. as soon as I hear them sniffle, I ask them to go to get a tissue and blow their nose then bin the tissue as it has germs and is yuck. so far it is working.

Sure, my son's most annoying behavior right now is biting his hands, fingers, toes, eating his boogers, picking his nose. He doesn't know what do do with down time w/ his hands. That and th sniffle....sniff, sniff, sniff.....ugh! Drives me nuts! Snif...

To: autism-aspergers Sent: Sun, June 12, 2011 9:15:50 PMSubject: Re: what's the most annoying thing your kids do?

great ideas. I will try them out next time we go out.

Tell him it is not nice. Talk to him before you go in the store. Keep him distracted. Feed him in the store. Give him a list of groceries to find. Let him sit in the back of the shopping cart w/ an electronic game and zone out. ???

To: autism-aspergers Sent: Sun, June 12, 2011 9:11:18 PMSubject: what's the most annoying thing your kids do?

mine is when I take my 5 year old son shopping, he is very observant of EVERYTHING he sees and just blurts out stuff that is inappropriate. e.g. baby got no shoes, baby got no socks. this is within earshot of the mother of the child and sometimes we get strange looks.

any advice as to how to break him out of this behaviour?

June 13, 2011

I agree with , I just tell my daughter that it's rude and hurts people's feelings. Keeping him otherwise distracted may work wonders, as if he's like mine he won't "get" why it's rude. My daughter's annoying habits are the obsessive conversations. She will ONLY talk about her obsessions which are Sonic X, Animaniacs, invisible friends, something funny her friends' said, or whatever she's reading at the time. She will talk incessantly and doesn't care if you aren't interested, she will still talk and gets upset if you don't pay attention. It's so bad that for Mother's Day her gift to me was to not mention Sonic X or Animaniacs for the entire day (at least in my presence). It was not easy.

Kiara

To: autism-aspergers Sent: Sun, June 12, 2011 8:11:18 PMSubject: what's the most annoying thing your kids do?

mine is when I take my 5 year old son shopping, he is very observant of EVERYTHING he sees and just blurts out stuff that is inappropriate. e.g. baby got no shoes, baby got no socks. this is within earshot of the mother of the child and sometimes we get strange looks. any advice as to how to break him out of this behaviour?

June 13, 2011

I LOVE THAT Mothers Day Gift! My son is the same way--doesn't matter if what he is talking about holds any interest for anyone else. He just barrels through on his topic. He will open his eyes in the morning and his first words out of his mouth are on his fave topics and it never stops. My ears bleed. MarilynTo: autism-aspergers Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 12:09 AMSubject: Re: what's the most annoying thing your kids do?

I agree with , I just tell my daughter that it's rude and hurts people's feelings. Keeping him otherwise distracted may work wonders, as if he's like mine he won't "get" why it's rude. My daughter's annoying habits are the obsessive conversations. She will ONLY talk about her obsessions which are Sonic X, Animaniacs, invisible friends, something funny her friends' said, or whatever she's reading at the time. She will talk incessantly and doesn't care if you aren't interested, she will still talk and gets upset if you don't pay attention. It's so bad that for Mother's Day her gift to me was to not mention Sonic X or Animaniacs for the entire day (at least in my presence). It was not easy.

Kiara

To: autism-aspergers Sent: Sun, June 12, 2011 8:11:18 PMSubject: what's the most annoying thing your kids do?

mine is when I take my 5 year old son shopping, he is very observant of EVERYTHING he sees and just blurts out stuff that is inappropriate. e.g. baby got no shoes, baby got no socks. this is within earshot of the mother of the child and sometimes we get strange looks. any advice as to how to break him out of this behaviour?

June 13, 2011

Speaking of tic's--there is a high comorbidity of tic syndromes and kids on the spectrum. When my son was 7 we went to WDW. When we got home, he was coughing. I thought he had a cold. He coughed for months--I took him to the doc, the pulmonologist, etc. Nothing. Then he developed some head bobs, shoulder shrugs, chin movements--it finally dawned on me he had Tourettes Syndrome. Took him for an eval--sure enough. In fact, he's the poster child for it--onset at 7, high tic levels at age 10. Sigh. So sometimes the sniffs aren't from allergies or colds or any physical reason. Turns out his cough really was (and is) a tic.

We do the same thing, but it's become a "tick" or something.

June 13, 2011

omg! that is possible for my son too.

Speaking of tic's--there is a high comorbidity of tic syndromes and kids on the spectrum. When my son was 7 we went to WDW. When we got home, he was coughing. I thought he had a cold. He coughed for months--I took him to the doc, the pulmonologist, etc. Nothing. Then he developed some head bobs, shoulder shrugs, chin movements--it finally dawned on me he had Tourettes Syndrome. Took him for an eval--sure enough. In fact, he's the poster child for it--onset at 7, high tic levels at age 10. Sigh. So sometimes the sniffs aren't from allergies or colds or any physical reason. Turns out his cough really was (and is) a tic.

We do the same thing, but it's become a " tick " or something.

June 13, 2011

Sure, my son's most annoying behavior right now is biting his hands, fingers, toes, eating his boogers, picking his nose. He doesn't know what do do with down time w/ his hands. That and th sniffle....sniff, sniff, sniff.....ugh! Drives me nuts! Snif... Louie has been taught by his behaviorist to put his hands in his pockets if he doesn't know what to do with them. He'll use a tissue if we give him a packet of them, but that one took years to instill. Now, he says he puts his hands in his pockets to keep himself out of trouble. ! Annie, who loves ya annie@...***************************************"If a little daydreaming is dangerous, the cure of it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time." -- Marcel Proust

June 13, 2011

Persistence does pay off - sometimes Now if I could just get him to clean his teeth without being told. Or keep up to date with homework. I guess we can't expect too much I made a poster for Louie with my computer graphics program that outlined a series of steps he had to perform in the morning. Wash your face, brush your hair, wash your hands, have breakfast, brush your teeth, wash your face and hands, and have a good day! Later, we extended that basic list to be things to do after every meal. It was in color with representative cartoony illustrations (a grimacing faucet, a hairbrush, a tooth brush, a bowl of cereal) because Louie responded well to cartoon things. We started this when Louie was 12. He still has an uses that poster, and he's 31 now. Worked like a charm for us; you might give it a try! Annie, who loves ya annie@..."Anything that happens enough times to irritate you will happen at least once more." ---- Tom Parkins

June 13, 2011

I LOVE THAT Mothers Day Gift! My son is the same way--doesn't matter if what he is talking about holds any interest for anyone else. He just barrels through on his topic. He will open his eyes in the morning and his first words out of his mouth are on his fave topics and it never stops. My ears bleed. MarilynTo: autism-aspergers Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 12:09 AMSubject: Re: what's the most annoying thing your kids do? I agree with , I just tell my daughter that it's rude and hurts people's feelings. Keeping him otherwise distracted may work wonders, as if he's like mine he won't "get" why it's rude. My daughter's annoying habits are the obsessive conversations. She will ONLY talk about her obsessions which are Sonic X, Animaniacs, invisible friends, something funny her friends' said, or whatever she's reading at the time. She will talk incessantly and doesn't care if you aren't interested, she will still talk and gets upset if you don't pay attention. It's so bad that for Mother's Day her gift to me was to not mention Sonic X or Animaniacs for the entire day (at least in my presence). It was not easy. Kiara__ Louie had a speech therapist that was really on top of things when he was in high school. She put together a course that she called "Conversational English," and taught him small talk like it was a foreign language (for him, it was!). He still obsesses on tv station listings and cartoon cats (Meowth and Sylvester; drive me nuts), but just today we had a really nice conversation over lunch about when he was little and what he has coming up soon. Even five years ago, he couldn't have done that. And when he was a lot younger, well....... let's just say that echolalia was his major form of communication. Annie, who loves ya annie@...******************************************God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere. -- Voltaire

June 13, 2011

I bought my son an electric toothbrush, which he seems to like better.Â Since he does a poor job on his teeth, I also got him bubble gum flavored mouthwash, which he will take if reminded.

Â

I get so tired of the teeth fight. I will physically do it for him if i have to but geez does it get old. The hair we solve with a buzz cut.

Â

Marilyn

To: autism-aspergers

Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 8:53 AMSubject: Re: what's the most annoying thing your kids do?

Â

My son hasn't brushed his hair for years.Â It does have to be kept clean and relatively neat, though.Â Fortunately, the 'scruffy' look is still in at the moment.Â I am much less willing to give up on the teeth brushing though.

Â

I have a hard time gettingÂ my 12 year old sonÂ to either comb his hair, or brush his teeth.

Â

Jenn

Â

Persistence does pay off - sometimes Â Now if I could just get him to clean his teeth without being told.Â Or keep up to date with homework.Â I guess we can't expect too much

Â

16 years of that?

OMG!

that is severe!

It worked with our son - eventually.Â Just before his 16th birthday he got tired of both parents nagging him to " blow your nose! " and finally gave in.Â Before then, it was just constant sniffling whenever he had a cold.

Â

for that, I have a box of tissues on the kitchen bench, within easy reach for my kids but not accessible by my 17 month old son who would just pull all the tissues out of the box. as soon as I hear them sniffle, I ask them to go to get a tissue and blow their nose then bin the tissue as it has germs and is yuck. so far it is working.

Sure, my son's most annoying behavior right now is biting hisï¿½hands, fingers, toes, eating his boogers, picking his nose.ï¿½ He doesn't know what do do with down time w/ his hands.ï¿½ That and th sniffle....sniff, sniff, sniff.....ugh!ï¿½ Drives me nuts!ï¿½ Snif...

ï¿½

To: autism-aspergers

Sent: Sun, June 12, 2011 9:15:50 PMSubject: Re: what's the most annoying thing your kids do?

ï¿½

great ideas. I will try them out next time we go out.ï¿½

Tell him it is not nice.ï¿½ Talk to him before you go in the store.ï¿½ Keep him distracted.ï¿½ Feed him in the store.ï¿½ Give him a list of groceries to find.ï¿½ Let him sit in the back of the shopping cart w/ anï¿½electronic game and zone out.ï¿½ ï¿½ ???ï¿½ï¿½

ï¿½

To: autism-aspergers

Sent: Sun, June 12, 2011 9:11:18 PMSubject: what's the most annoying thing your kids do?

ï¿½

mine is when I take my 5 year old son shopping, he is very observant of EVERYTHING he sees and just blurts out stuff that is inappropriate. e.g. baby got no shoes, baby got no socks. this is within earshot of the mother of the child and sometimes we get strange looks.ï¿½

any advice as to how to break him out of this behaviour?

June 13, 2011

Funny, my son is almost obsessed with combing his hair!! And really he doesn't need to because it grows pin straight and he likes it short so it sort of just goes into place automatically - but he is always combing it! But the teeth, that's another story! And and 13, he's already taller than me, so me doing it for him isn't an option! We just keep talking about it, and eventually he goes into the bathroom and brushes them - not sure how well he does, but it's a start anyway!

Estevan, SK

Canada

-- what's the most annoying thing your kids do?

ï¿½

mine is when I take my 5 year old son shopping, he is very observant of EVERYTHING he sees and just blurts out stuff that is inappropriate. e.g. baby got no shoes, baby got no socks. this is within earshot of the mother of the child and sometimes we get strange looks.ï¿½

any advice as to how to break him out of this behaviour?

June 14, 2011

we have two that are on the spectrum. our 7 yr old doesnâ€™t like to bathe or brush her teeth or brush her hair, take care of her clothes or clean her room. our 12 yr old doesnâ€™t like to brush his hair, so we shave it, he doesnâ€™t like to brush his teeth, and he constantly seems to have an attitude. we donâ€™t get annoyed by the tics anymore now that we know they are tics. his tics were sniffing, clearing of the throat, eye blinking, mouth moving, hopping, shoulder shrugging, chin moving, that is about all that we have noticed so far.