Chipping away at the iceberg

The sign above is what I called "chipping away" because that is what it is like to have a emotionally handicapped child, or FAS. What amazes me is that 5 years ago I had a child that would not sleep. He would spend many a nights rocking and screaming or as I call it... hoo hooing. He would moan all night long. This got us to a point to find something else that was going on or something that is going on with our five year old. We sought attachment therapy or theraplay. We struggled to attached and struggled. We even had our facilitator frustrated. I would lay with my child for hours and I mean hours... could be an hour and a half (which meant I did not spend quality time withe another child) or more. It took time but we finally attached. Our facilitator thought our child might have FAS or FAE which over another long story he does and that is why it took so long to attached. But we did.

Then three years ago my child would fall asleep as long as Dad was in the hallway. Don would work on his injured shoulder by lifting small weights and stretches in the hall way between the boys room. He would lay there for an hour or maybe got in only 45 minutes.

Two years ago my children started sleeping on our floor. What started out as a camping outing in our room one night became a year and a half long of the boys sleeping on sleeping bags in our room to sleep. THey could not sleep in their own beds.

Last summer I made a sleeping room. I put there beds together and we worked many a nights for them to sleep in that room on comfy beds and not our hard floors. During the school week they did but on weekends they slept on our floors. I can say now that they don't sleep on our floor anymore. They have learn to enjoy their beds and they are now so comfortable in their beds this is the sign outside their door..

DO NOT DISTURB WHILE SLEEPING

and a few other things but hey, this is a super great start!!