The last few days SJ has been a little hyper (I am being kind when I say a little!). My husband and I were trying to figure out what is the culprit. I thought maybe he was eating too much popcorn. I do buy the brand of popcorn with the lowest amount of butter that I can find, but maybe even that small amount is too much. My husband said he didn't think it was the popcorn, since he has been eating that brand for a long time.
Then, I remembered that he had pizza at school on Thursday, on Saturday when we had a babysitter and when he had lunch at the ski resort. Pizza is a very likely candidate for the crazies coming back. Usually, he only gets pizza twice a month when they have it at his school. (They actually have pizza every Thursday. SJ only prefers the homemade school pizza and they only have that every other week. The other weeks they have frozen pan pizzas.) I hope that we won't have to eliminate his twice a month treat.
I also realized that he is spending a lot of time on his IPod (a favorite Christmas present). I asked my husband if he thought the extra electronics time could be causing the crazies to come out in SJ. "Maybe," he said. We may just have to give him a time limit and monitor his behavior.
When the crazies come out, he is very silly and tends to repeat A LOT!!!! This tends to drive Bob, my husband and myself a little crazy too. I don't mind when he does this at home (well, I do mind some), but I don't want this behavior to roll over into school time.
This is what is so stressful about PDD. A typical kid doesn't get hyper from eating a few extra slices of pizza. A typical kid doesn't start repeating dialogue from watching too many videos on his IPod. If any of you out there are in the same boat as us, any words of wisdom or wizardry that you have found helpful would be appreciated. I am hoping we can figure this out sooner than later!
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