Ian is gluten-free because of severe behavior issues, sensory seeking tendencies, and fine motor delays. Removing the gluten has been a HUGE positive for him, with great success. We have not tested him for Celiac because it would require us to put him back on gluten, and we just aren't willing to do that.
The last two weeks or so we've seen an increase in breakthrough behaviors. Sudden bursts of anger or other emotion (hurt feelings, sadness), an over-show of emotion in general (he walked in the house yesterday, the door didn't close all the way, I said "Ian make sure the door closed so the dog doesn't get out", a very common/typical thing for me to say to him, and he immediately burst into tears and went running into his room trying to hold back sobs) He's been talking back, screaming, hitting things again, transitions are suddenly hard for him again...
What's going on? School starts Monday, we've been talking about school recently, maybe it has him a little on edge, I don't know. He's spent the last 5 weeks at a sitter half-day while my husband took a class, and I know that this sitter's kids are not as well behaved as I'd like (lots of yelling, talking back, crying, etc) so I wonder if it just rubbed off that quickly? To my knowledge we haven't had any dietary slip-ups, but it's possible. We've never been strict about cross-contamination or hidden gluten, but recently I've started paying more attention, thinking maybe the cumulative effect of too much minute gluten was enough to trigger these behaviors.
I don't know, but it's much harder to deal with when he's older and bigger!
The last two weeks or so we've seen an increase in breakthrough behaviors. Sudden bursts of anger or other emotion (hurt feelings, sadness), an over-show of emotion in general (he walked in the house yesterday, the door didn't close all the way, I said "Ian make sure the door closed so the dog doesn't get out", a very common/typical thing for me to say to him, and he immediately burst into tears and went running into his room trying to hold back sobs) He's been talking back, screaming, hitting things again, transitions are suddenly hard for him again...
What's going on? School starts Monday, we've been talking about school recently, maybe it has him a little on edge, I don't know. He's spent the last 5 weeks at a sitter half-day while my husband took a class, and I know that this sitter's kids are not as well behaved as I'd like (lots of yelling, talking back, crying, etc) so I wonder if it just rubbed off that quickly? To my knowledge we haven't had any dietary slip-ups, but it's possible. We've never been strict about cross-contamination or hidden gluten, but recently I've started paying more attention, thinking maybe the cumulative effect of too much minute gluten was enough to trigger these behaviors.
I don't know, but it's much harder to deal with when he's older and bigger!
