DS - nearly four - getting more and more reluctant to leave the house

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I am just looking for any help or suggestions about dealing with DS's increasing reluctance to leave the house.

We have no diagnosis though we think there might possibly be some aspergers (and on other days we think its just us not dealing with him well).

He is extremely verbal so can explain things to him - I have tried giving him tasks to help me with - i.e. we are going to the supermarket - can you help me remember that we need eggs and sugar. I have tried just giving him one thing that we are doing - not a long list of places to go.

I am not sure what else to do - he gets very upset and cries and can also be quite hyper and sometimes begs to stay at home (which is upsetting).

Any suggestions on things I can try to help him with this as its getting worse.

try printing a picture list of things you need to get, give him a clipboard and pen, and make a game of going out, your going on a treasure hunt in the supermarket, if he finds all the things on his list he can get a treat.(fruit,drink,magazine) my dd liked the cafe so her prize was a kids meal with a toy.

but doesn't that Normalize his behavior? I mean shouldn't he if I bribe him to leave the house, don't I have to bribe him to do everything? We are struggling with lots of things at the moment, and I am reluctant to start bribing him to do everything?

Also sounds very expensive?

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