Trials and Tribulations of Parenting...

 It has been 5 months since I have posted on Hunter's journey.  I am posting today because it has been a rough week for all of us at home and at school. Hunter has been doing decent with the transition into his new school. He has mostly good days but recently has had bad days. He is with an aide 95% of the day and has to be prompted to do his school work. He still isn't interacting with his classmates. He has a friend named Jacob that he really likes. He likes to hug Jacob and when he does he is to rough and thinks it is funny to not let go. They are working with him to shake Jacob's hand since at their age hugging is not appropriate at school. His speech therapist made a social story on the classroom Ipad that has pictures and story. I hope Hunter seeing this will help with this issue. He has been swearing a lot and has to be taken to the sensory room so he doesn't disrupt the classroom. It is pretty bad. I had to pick him up last 2 days due to not being able to calm him down. I curse at ourselves for allowing him to watch youtube because he finds bad things on there and repeats them. Youtube has  voiceovers on kids shows that adults have manipulated and say disgusting things and of course my child finds everyone. I am sure as you are reading this you are thinking "well shut off youtube." but I assure you it is not an easy thing to do with an ocd child with autism.  We swear and I will admit he has heard and learned things from us but things he is saying is not things we walk around the house saying. It is time to buck down and practice some tough love and this is where I feel we have failed him by letting him do whatever he wants because he has autism. I hope the days to come get better because right now I am not feeling good as a parent because my child acts like this. It may be time for professional help at this point. We have a meeting next week with the school to see what we can do for him. Please pray for us that we all make it out ok.