Recap of visit with behavior support specialist

Tonight the behavior support specialist came to the house. We left Brandon at my moms so we could talk about him-without him knowing we are talking about him. It went pretty good. This lady is very down to earth and easy to talk with. I didn't feel like I was being judged, which is apparently an issue of mine. She recommended setting aside "family time" at least 5 nights a week. During this 45min to an hour we would play board games, play doh, make wood cars or birdhouses, playing outside, or taking a walk. She is going to look into some other ideas that we can all do as a family. I think if I can be consistent that it could really work. I have a hard time with that, and that sucks, because that's one of the things I'm failing Brandon and Kaylin. Another thing she suggested was to set up more structure at home.. That ones gonna kill me. She said start by setting up structured snack and meal times. Ideas she had included bagging up individual snack servings daily and give him snacks at certain times of the day along with set meal times. I'm thinking about doing a visual schedule that he can look at everyday too. We are also going to set a bed time, with bath time before that. We are also going to cut TV allot and use it as a reward, instead of the TV always being on as background noise. So those are our goals. I think Rick will have a hard time following through, and I'll have a hard time being consistent.