Its quite in here....

Just a little vent to let it out... Evan is having meltdowns almost daily. It seems like he is constantly in a state of "egg shells". What I like to call it when you can see the meltdown is coming & its just a matter of trying hard to avoid triggering it. But I have no idea what it is triggering it. Its everything. Yesterday we went to the park, at his request. Get there & he was moody because the park was "boring". So we went to another park that we hadn't been to properly before. It was a nice reserve type park. Lots of trees, a creek etc. Again he stomped around complaining how the trees had green ants on them or spiders etc. Just everything he was in a foul mood about. Eventually later at home he had his meltdown which was triggered when I took a FULL glass of soft drink off him. Dh had bought some creaming soda as a treat & Evan poured all the kids a cup. But gave himself a adult size glass & filled it to the brim. So I took it from him & drank half & gave it back. He flipped out & tipped the rest down the sink & spent the next 40 min throwing things around because I drank ALL of his drink & he didn't get any. When I tried to tell DH (who was in teh bath) what happened Evan changed his story to I drank half & then I tipped the rest out.
He eventually settled down though.

I don't know what to do or who to ask for help from. The school is slow, the pead's office stuffed up & was waiting to hear from the school before sending anything BUT the school has been waiting on stuff from the pead. I feel like we are somewhat prisoners, locked in by his constant threat of a meltdown. We use to see a counsellor in NSW through the community health services. But I can't find any information on anything like that available here.

To top it off Iain is copying Evans behaviour now too Isla is being a handful, demanding (attention, who can blame here really) & just being a brat. Poor Glenn is just sinking into the background & Rohan is becoming a colicy, needs to be held constantly baby.