Was looking for a piece of paper to write something on and found this (by DS1)....

[FAQ]

who'll be 8 in September.....bearing in mind I showed him his new room today when he got in from school and he's obviously written it afterwards

(written with his spelling and punctuation etc)

there is going to be a terebal thunder storm on monday!!! bad

I can.t wait intil tonight because I am moving in to the office room. good

I had a brilliant day today a few moments but it was good.

We do often have our "moments" so it's made my day to find that

it's lovely to read what they write

yes, made me all soppy now - DS1 and I have very similar personalities, so unfortunately do tend to clash quite a bit (god help me when he's a teenager lol) so really lovely that despite our "moments" today he still went to bed happy

bump as I can't stop looking at what he wrote and have no-one else to share it with right now

awww!

that's lovely. you should paste stuff like that in a scrapbook for keepsakes. well that's what i'd do, don't mean to tell you what to do

FAQ - that is lovely. Good he can write down his feelings too. Perhaps you can (gently) encourage it more often? I don't have DC his age so others might correct me. I think that if he can vent in writing he might be calmer and therefore be less stressful in himself?

BrownSuga - I would do...except without thinking I've used the bottom of the piece of paper to write what I needed the paper for .

I suppose I could always cut the top bit off and keep it.

CMOC - I may try that actually - as (like me) he's not very good at expressing how he's feeling.......I tend to vent/let things out in writing too......

That's lovely FAQ.

DS has a Worry Book, where he can write anything down that's troubling him for me to look at later. It helps when he is angry and can't find the words to talk.

I love having a read through (it helps to lighten the load after a meltdown!). My favourite was "Mam sent me to bed early FOR NO REASON AT ALL!!!" Selective memory indeed.

lol @ for no reason at all

I like the idea of a worry book - might suggest it to him.

we he does get very stressed sometimes and finds it hard to express himself verbally (which winds me up ) and it all escalates. If I could tell him to go and write it down so I can look later it'll probably help us both.

And now he's got his own room (with slides out desk which he thinks is the best thing since sliced bread lol) he go off there and do it in private.

FAQ, ds went for months without writing anything in the worry book, but now it suddenly seems to be something he wants to use. So if you do introduce one don't give up if it doesn't happen straight away, jsut keep mentioning it and when the time comes your ds might just use it. We've found it quite helpful.

I've recently given ds a swear words book too, so he can write down the new ones as he learns them. Being an Aspie he's got to get them out somehow so I'd much rather he put them on paper than yelled them across the school playing field. It helps him to understand that it's not OK to say such things out loud but it's OK to think them. He told me he'd written a new C word in there the other day - I was a bit apprehensive and you should have seen the worried little look on his face when I had a look. Turned out to be Crud . Bless.