*Camp* as we call it......

So my son is  now into his 4th week of his social skills class. The first few times around were so much fun for him that he started calling it camp. We took it and ran with it - we now call it camp.

He came home the first day so excited to tell about the Easter crafts they had done and how much fun camp was. I was relieved! I realized this was much harder on me then it was him.

Then he came home last week, you could tell he had been crying. I sat him down asking how camp was. He told me he was having a rough time. Camp made him *mad*. I asked him what happened to which he informed me that they played musical chairs and he lost. He continued to tell me how everyone cheated. (Everyone cheats in my son's mind if he doesn't win). My heart was pounding. In one sense I was thrilled to know that the psycologists running this group had seen this side of him, the other I knew what we were in for.

I was bang on, the night was filled with melt downs, defiance and general frustration. I didn't push him to hard the next few days - letting him re-group and get back on track.

Then came going to *camp* yesterday. After I picked him up from the bus stop he informed me he didn't want to go to camp because he might have a rough time. It was boring and he didn't like playing with the kids there, he wanted to stay with the daycare kids here. I fed him his afterschool snack and let him know he had to go, there was no choice.

Again he told me how boring camp was when he got home. I asked him why, what was going on? I got a *I don't want to tell you*. I talked with him a little more and found out that they played a game with a *cake* and *two slices*. They had to run around the cake and the first person there got to slice the cake. I asked him if he got to slice the cake in which he told me no, I didn't play!

Are we making progress? I have no idea? Im guessing by his hesitation to go now that this group is doing what it's meant to which is fantastic, but hard all at the same time. I know we are looking at the bigger picture of things and I have to keep reminding myself of this.

The remainder of this week will be based on the filling out the booklets upon booklets of questions for his psych evaluation meeting coming up next week.