Potty Training For Autism

I have a 7 year old son (Tanner) that is diagnosed with moderate autism. He is still not fully potty trained. I have done everything I know to do. I have asked the doctors, not much help there. I don't even think they really care! I have talked with family and friends and gotten lots of ideas but none have helped. I am at the end of my rope with this one! Am I the only one with this problem?! When Tanner was 4 I started training my then 2 year old and would reward him with M&M"s. I Involved Tanner in this as well. They got two M&M's if they peed and 5 if they pooped. It worked for my 2 year old and I got Tanner peeing in the potty  though he has some accidents he for the most part does very well. However he still wets at night and he will pee in his paints if he is wearing a pull up. Because of this I keep him in underwear but this make cleaning poopy paints harder and messier. He has only pooped on the potty 2 times in his whole life. One time I caught him in the middle of it and made sit on the potty. The other I started using a sticker chart and that worked one time. I make him pull his own underwear off and dump it in the potty. I have to wipe him though or it gets pretty ugly. I thought this would help but I think it makes it worse because he will dump it in the potty and then say "I poop in the potty". He used to put a pull up on when he had to poop but I stopped that thinking he would go in the potty...no luck! I don't know what else to do and I am very frustrated and sad that I can't get Tanner potty trained. I have trained my other 3 boys so I know it's not something I can't do. I could really use some help and/or advice.

Letters Or Numbers?!

Stupid Yellow Candle!

Do You Beleave?!

Five years ago today (9/10/10) my brother-in-law called us. It was Saturday evening and he and his wife had been drinking. They told us they had been talking about he and my husbands dad (who died in ‘91) when his empty drinking cup started spinning in circles and then flew from the end table into his lap. They were freaked out about the whole thing! Now you can believe that happened or you can blame it on imagination and alcohol either way that is their story. At the time I was VERY pregnant with my 4th and last baby. My husband and I told them to tell his father to come this way and make the baby come out. 24 hours later I started contracting and on 9/12/10 at 7:02am I had our 4th baby boy.

However this is not the end of the story….my diseased father-in-laws birthday was 9/12. His name was Wayne. My husband is Wayne Jr. and his birthday is 7/2. Did you make the connection? My baby was born on his grandfathers birthday 9/12 at 7:02am, his daddy’s birthday (7/2). So, we named our baby Trevor Wayne =). Did I make a believer out of you?

Stuffed Hot Dogs

I have a family of 6 and this is loved by all...

Ingredients

*8 hotdogs, split long ways to butterfly
*2 cups mashed potatoes (real or instant)
*4 slices of cheese
*8 slices of bacon or (real) bacon bits

Directions

Arrange hotdogs on cookie sheet, put 1/4 cup mashed potatoes on top of hotdog. Place 1/2 slice cheese on potatoes and top with bacon. bake at 375 degrees for 30 minute until bacon is cooked ...if using bacon bits cook until cheese is melted good and hotdog looks done.

Dreams

I beleave dreams are God's way of communicating with us. We just don't always open our minds to remember or understand the dream. I always try to make since of a dream like last night...I had a very bad dream. It seemed to go on and on getting worse as it went. I woke up a few time and felt as if my heart was frozen. When I went back to sleep the dream would keep going incorporating the wake up into it. As I woke up this morning and relized it was all just a dream I thanked God. I thanked him because it WAS just a dream and I thanked him for the dream because I learned a valuable leason from it. Life is short and you don't know what will happen minute to minute so love yourself and the ones who love you. Let them know how important they are and when your patients runs thin with a loved one remember before you act you may not have them tomorrow. KEEP DREAMING =)

Falling and Staying

A successful relationship requires falling in love many times, always with the same person, but deeper and deeper every time. Each time you fall in love it’s on a whole new level. You together discover the truth, there is no limit to the beauty of your love. If you think you've reached the end, stop generalizing.

                                                             
A relationship is not all fun, it requires work, dedication, honesty, truth and compassion. If you want it bad enough you will work as hard as you can on it, never giving up. Love grows and sometimes it feels as if it grows the wrong way but just like a flower it must grow ugly to bloom again.