stop stirring my pots!

The Wednesday before Easter was a bad day for SJ.  He was upset with his aide at the end of the day.  He was crying in the office and complaining that she made him do "too much work".  (This is a common complaint from SJ, so I don't give it much merit.)  I explained to him again that she doesn't make him do any more work than his classmates.  At this point, he was so upset that there was no reasoning with him.  I told him he would need to go to his room to settle down.


He was up in his room for a while and he was still very upset.  I could hear the crying all the way down the stairwell.  I went up to his room.  He was curled up in a ball and he was sobbing.  I said, "You need to find a way to calm down.  There have been enough tears now.  Settle down."  I went back downstairs and started to unpack their backpacks. 


When I finished that task, I went into our office.  SJ was on our home computer watching a YouTube video.  I stopped in my spot and started watching the video he was viewing.  He was watching a video entitled "How to Calm Yourself Down". 


There was an Eastern Indian gentleman giving techniques on calming yourself.  "Try not to let others stir your pots," said the man on the video.  Then SJ yelled out loud, "I can't stop my pots from being stirred." 


I had to leave the room, because I was about to laugh.  It wasn't funny, but SJ's reaction was.  I actually thought it was great that SJ was searching for solutions to solve his problem.  I don't know if the video helped at all, but he did settle down shortly after he watched it.  Whatever it takes!