Brendan had a great CST session. Afterward we went to Target. As we got out of the car, he was covering his ears, so I told him he can wear his headphones if his ears hurt. He put them on but got mad at me. I think this was because I was "telling" him what to do...the preteen attitude.
As we were checking out, the clerk scanned the item, gave it to Brendan because he knows Brendan likes to bag his items himself. For some reason the item didn't scan correctly so the clerk took the bag back from Brendan to rescan it. This made Brendan headbutt me. I think he felt that 'he' did something wrong. I told him that the CD wasn't scanning correctly and we have to wait a minute. After about three minutes (which felt like eternity), the correct code was relayed to the clerk, he scanned it and we left. I told Brendan I understood why he was frustrated and that I thought he did a good job waiting.
On our drive home, he asked if we could get ice cream (for him it is a sorbet) so we went. Once again we had to wait because two people walked in in front of us. This agitated him a bit. He didn't headbutt me, but slammed his hand on the counter a few times.
When we got home, I was unloading the car while he checked the mailbox (no Barney video). He was fine that there was no video and went inside. He was sitting at his computer as I dashed out to grab his backpack. We are talking a few seconds..then I hear this breaking sound coming from the garage. I ran into the garage and he had broken (shattered really) two Barney videos. I was not happy and made him clean-up the mess. I told him that his Barney videos were off limits. I was done with the whole video OCD scene. Surprisingly, he wasn't mad (like I thought he might be). The rest of the day he was fine. In fact, he was the most calm I have seen him in the last week. We'll see if he starts up again about wanting the Barney videos. However, he isn't getting them back....at least for a long while.....
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