This cute little guy is 5 years old. He loves to play outside, and play cars, trucks, trains basically anything that moves. He likes to pretend that he is a dog. He loves his mom more than anything and is often her shadow. He likes to eat cheese, rice, beans, chicken basically anything we eat. He has a shy disposition and also a funny playful side once you get to know him. Funny thing about Adam our 5-year-old is that he cannot say very much. He can muster out a few words here and there. He can tell us what he wants, and will appease us with random words every now and then, but it is not enough. He does not know enough words to carry out a conversation. He cannot tell us what he learned in school or who he played with at recess. He cannot say what he wants to do, so we have to suggest until we are exhausted. Sooooo….. What to do?
Brain Balance for this little kiddo. About 6 years ago our Grant had the same issues on a much worse scale. Grant would wake up screaming every morning for years. He would have terrible tantrums if things weren't just right. He would throw toys across the room and break them. He was much more loud in letting us know that things were not right for him. Back then, Brain Balance seemed like a shoo in.
Adam has been different from Grant's situation since the beginning. Adam is so much more laid back then Grant ever was. Adam has been much easier to take care of in that he sort of takes things as they come, where Grant had to have things out to entertain him at all times. I remember going to the store, and buying Grant and Audrey a balloon and just begging in my brain for Grant to be happy. Adam is more happy than sad. If he doesn't want to do an activity or is just not interested, he will back away from it. Where with Grant it was way more definite that we need to intervene and do something, it hasn't been that way with Adam. The tipping point for us to decide to take the drastic step of Brain Balance happened at a Parent Teacher Conference in February, the day after President's Day. I happened to ask the question
