lets talk last night Halloween | ADHD Information
Can you say over stimulation!!!! My two boys and the 4 neices.. (we do everything with them) My sister and I and of couse our husbands stuck in traffic... get dressed.. he puts on a robe.. then starts to answer the door.. fighting with eveyone to answer it.. then we have pants no shirt.. then freaks out because kids could see him almost naked.. but, sweetie you answered the door that way.. I am trying hard here.. forget dinner... made bat pasta with blood sauce.. one kid ate it..... finally ready to leave and he is now Anakin just before he is darth vader... the noises and stuff he was doing... Yippee here comes daddy.. out the door see ya... skip to bed time.. let them stay up a bit to watch tv.. ate salad only two candies.. totally fell apart over a camelot cd he wanted to listen to at bed.. he was a ball on the floor tears just flowing.. finally in bed.. dh was holding him and he went to sleep... good thing it is only once a year...My son remembered me saying last year that we could do alot of houses this year, he told me so last week. His father and I decided to go a certain way through the neighborhood and in an adjacent neighborhood. They have contests with each other around the corner with decorations every holiday. He whined the entire time and complained about everything. He rang every door bell about 20x and then banged on the door for about 45 seconds. If no one answered he would stomp down the driveway and "blow smoke out of his". He makes a whistle noise and fists and thinks hes in a loony toon episode. We went through a yard blow up haunted house and I warned him first that there was a boy in there that was going to scare him. Well, he did and my son got SSSOOO angry and started cursing at him and waiving his fists...just keep in mind that hes 5. My 3 year old laughed and took the kid by the hand and made him get his candy. No big deal. This haunted house episode was never dropped. He was plotting his revenge and was insisting that we take him back there. I took pixie stix out of his bag and thats when the melt down began. Kicking, screaming, crying and jumping up and down in the middle of the street.
Thank god Halloween isnt for another 364 days!
OK, We went with my 2 friends and their 2 children apiece, that makes (1 )7 yr old, (2) 6 year olds, (1) 5 year old and 2 children 3 years old. My son immediately started up with the "I have to ring the bell first" I threatened to take him home. He was running from house to house and I had a hold of my 3 year old and could not keep up.
It was a little crazy but not as bad as I thought it would be. With my self and my 2 friends, we were able to keep an eye on the older and younger one's. He always took the appropriate amount of candy and said thank you. The only incident was one of my friends children snapped my sons mask on his face twice. The mother immediately reacted which I was thankful for. Later on, my son was running to be first and I look up, he is on the ground with his candy strewn everywhere. He had tripped. We picked him up, I told him only 3 more houses and then home. No crying or complaining.
He gave out candy after our arrival home and went to bed with NO difficulty. It could have been worse.
I was thinking of you all last night. Here Halloween is not popular, but my son was told about it in school (first grade). Scary thing is that he turned around and said to me, "We couldn't go from door to door here, we'd be killed". And yes, crime IS that bad in South Africa. That's altogether another subject but contributes highly to my son's anxiety problems, and mine!
Ugh, what a pain. Thank goodness it's over! I didn't bother making dinner last night. They wouldn't eat it anyway! DH took them around, and I just stayed home and passed out candy. We had a ton of kids, too. The girls were pretty wound up, but we just let them gorge as much as they wanted. Bedtime was a little trying, but since dh implemented a bed/bath point list where they earn privileges for the next day, they were able to keep it in check. And melatonin always helps, too! 
I'm exhausted just reading that!!
My son answers the door in his underwear and then yells at the visitors not to look at him! 
I always feel like we just have to relinquish control on nights like these and let the nights be what they are, chaos. We try to set parameters before hand, and then we just roll with it. It all goes by so quickly. We're getting our oldest ready for college entrance exams, so it's especially clear to me at this time just how quickly things go by.
Your son is like mine. Plotting the revenge and that something was done on purpose.. Mine also brought up something from last year and candy.. they have such amazing memories.. I did see a couple melt downs in my yard.. from other kids.. We carved our pumpkin ( rather I carved the pumpkin) yesterday after school. My brave DS would not even help me clean out the pumpkin...he only wanted the seeds which he took and planted in our front garden....hopefully they won't grow...I don't really want a pumpkin patch in my flower garden Anyway, the kids were great, and had so much fun. My husband took them out and my little girl is 2 and thought this trick or treating thing was amazing ( she wants to go again today). Both kids got so much candy plus we have tons of left overs. My diet cannot handle all ths sugar...so glad this only happens once a year.No big deals here. My daughter went through a whining fest about how cold it was. She fell once and scraped her knee. Even though the woman gave her three fists fulls of candy, she gave big drama about the scrape for the next 20 minutes or so. My son had a different issue. I actually couldnt keep him on task with the trick or treating. He was distracted with every decoration and every dog, never mind saying trick or treat or thankyou. No meltdowns here thank goodness. On a positive note, my daughter did do a great job with trick-or -treating for UNICEF. She even put in a quarter of her own money for every house that did not give her donations