and no good explanation. It all became clear when Wind (5) said "I don't like shaving." I didn't need an interpreter to figure that one out - they had found daddy's razor and tried it out on their own faces. (Thankfully no serious damage done but an impressive amount of blood.)
Before the razor incident I had been systematically removing (or having destroyed by busy hands) everything else under the sinks and in the drawers that was dangerous or useful. The Epsom salts were poured out on the floor twice, lipsticks eaten, feminine hygiene relocated, gallons of shampoo and body wash overstock poured down the drain and I have no idea how many tubes of toothpaste were squoze out for fun before I started hiding it again. Now my cabinets look like we have just moved in. A stray hairdryer, teens face wash and a few (not too many - that excites the toilet plugging urges) rolls of toilet paper are all that fill these huge expanses of storage space.
Problem diverted (because it can not really be solved- we just try to stay one step ahead) for today and now I have to stay on top of my game to catch where the impulse control behaviors are going to break out next.
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Love it! I had to get a locking box thingie that I keep in one of the bathroom drawers. Keep my makeup, scissors, brush and other stuff in it. Can't get Akila to understand that she can't use my hairbrush as grease does not go well with my hair!!! Live and learn. Every day.
We struggle with this at our house too--and I only have two, so far, that are into everything. I am so glad to know that I am not the only one struggling with this--your blog has been a God send!! :0)
Thank you for sharing! Sometimes it feels so incredibly exhausting and overwhelming to just attempt to keep up with the wave destruction, let alone actually complete the normal housekeeping tasks.
Oh, gracious. And here I am trying to make sure I put away the groceries and put my purse in the same place...oy. Kudos, as always.
Ouch!
Oh yeah, except ours was all my jewlery. Still finding random stones around the house. Kind of costly.
BTDT. No boundaries in my house - so I now have lots of unused storage in my bathrooms and everything that can be destroyed or used inappropriately is in my bedroom (sigh....like I really remember to get a razor out of my closet BEFORE I take a shower in the bathroom at the other end of the house...). I was hiding things from my TEENS, not my little ones, who think they need to use a new razor every time the go in the shower and a half bottle of shampoo and conditioner each day on their hair.
If you know it is am impulse control problem, how do you handle the incident? I totaaly understand and agree with moving the items for prevention, but do you do any consequences for, say squeezing out all the toothpaste?
I can tell you how many times, I have awaken to a bed that has had a bottle of shampoo poured out on it overnight. Crazy the things I hide in my house too!
I'm wondering like Robin about the consequence. Your next post talked about how you can't do the typical, but what do you do? My son is one who is so impulsive and the balance of natural consequences (and logical to someone who doesn't have Aspergers) and ones that will actually sink in... not just bounce off the walls of his mind. Could you expand more? Thanks for being so open and transparent, and helping me feel normal while watching you. I'm tired, I hope that reads as a compliment like I meant it. :)
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