2cutekids

my son is 7 and in first grade and is suffering from wicked seasonal allergies right now. He also has mood swings, where for 2 wks or so he looks and acts "normal" and then to bottom falls out and he is so AS it is crazy.

For the last few weeks, it has been getting harder and harder. He wants to do whatever he wants. He's starting to lie and scheme his way into stuff, he will always admit it when you ask him about it, but it is getting out of hand and we don't know what to do.

He is begging food/money at school (he's on the gf/cf diet) and ppl were giving it to him and this was making it worse.

They have a card system at school, green, yellow and red. Yellow is 2 warnings I think and he has been getting them a lot for calling out and not following directions after we have talked to him over and over again, till we are blue in the face. He says he won't do it again and then the next day, same stuff.

When he wants something he is starting to dig in he's heels and demanding it, though it isn't given to him, then he cries and says we hurt his feelings and broke his heart.

Friday he got another yellow card but as soon as he got him, he wanted to goto his room to "show" me something. He stole a green card and was going to switch them out so he didn't get into trouble.

He's making up stories to get out of trouble also. I asked him why he bit his nail and he said that a crazy monster came into his classroom and bit his nail off.. WHAT! Come on now.

Today he said he wanted to go and check to see if any of his toys were broken (he doesn't really break toys and this didn't make sense but hey, what ever) so the teacher calls and asks me if I let him bring 20bucks to school for the "store" and I'm like NO... so what he did when he was checking his toys, he went into his bank and got the money out.

They don't have store at school anymore, it was an activity they were doing for math and I would NEVER NEVER NEVER give him 20bucks for school, he's only in 1st grade for pete sake!

What can I do? Putting him in his rooms isn't working. Taking TV away isn't working. Talking to him isn't working. I'm lost here. He doesn't have anything that really means much to him and he doesn't get any social skills at school because they didn't feel he needed it anymore. We are opening up his IEP for the rest of this year and mostly next year but I'm stuck now w/ no idea how to handle this.

I'm amazed he can come up with this stuff, we sure the heck didn't teach him now to lie and be a sneak, I HATE that... this HAS to stop now...

Advice is most welcome. Dh wants to put him in the room for a week and take away all toys and computer games and stuff but it doesn't seem to work. What now? We've tried room for a few hours, then the day. NO going out side for the day was yesterdays punishment...

The last few weeks have been hell with him, it feels like he is always in trouble.

Sooo sad, help us!