From Bad to Worse...

...That is how our night went.  And it had nothing to do with the keyboard, or at least from our standpoint. 

We had a bad evening.  It started when it was the girls turn to watch their show.  He screamed, threw things, etc, and then Mom and Dad finally turned off the TV and let the girls go to our room to watch their show.  Colby then took a kazoo away from Will, and instead of giving it back he threw it across the room.  So, I (mom) took the kazoo and put it away.  That meant FULL BLOWN MELTDOWN!!!!  Colby is screaming, Dad is screaming, and Mom is about to go into her own meltdown mode, so I decided that I needed to defuse the situation.  By defuse, I mean-Colby has to go to his room and lay in his bed.  It took a while to get him into his PJ's and down the stairs into his room, but we did it.  All was calm for about 10 minutes.  Colby then tried to come get his kazoo, so we went through another round of screaming on Colby's part.  I have to admit that I am proud of Dad, who did not scream or raise his voice at all during the 2nd round.  Back to the night, Dad put the kazoo in a locked closet (where many things Colby can not have go).  The 2nd round was worse than the first-  Screaming, throwing himself on the ground, trying to hit, etc,and it took both Dad and me to get him down the stairs, but we did make him go back to his room.  One thing we are learning is that we cannot give in-WE HAVE TO STICK WITH WHAT WE SAY!  If not, it reinforces that bad behavior.  It lets Colby think that he can do it again. 

Well, GOOD MORNING- today is a new day, and a new day means a new beginning here in Colby's Family.  Hope you all do have a Wonderful and Blessed Day!