A couple of weeks ago, we decided to try something new with Logan.  We noticed that Logan was not listening too well at soccer.  He would follow the instructions to some extent, but preferred to kick around instead.  So Stuart used Logan’s current interest of the “PC tank game” and suggested that Logan can earn tokens for playtime.  It has been working quite well as Logan is now listening to the coach better and trying his best in both practices and games.  He is still a defensive player and loves defending the goal rather than making one.  He knows his teammates better now, and starts to play with them more.  At the last practice, he was goofing around and giggling with another boy a lot, and needed reminders from the coach to focus back on the scrimmage game.  But I think the idea of tokens is still helping the situation.

    At school, Logan has been sharing with us how the students are being color coded depending on their behaviors.  He has been telling us how there have been many students turning yellow, and even some blues and rarely some reds.  He has been staying green except last Friday when he told Stuart that it was a bad day as he turned yellow.  He told us that it was because he forgot to write his name on one of the school works.  We thought the reason seemed strange, but assumed Logan was just confused and misunderstood the reason.  But on the same day, Logan received a pencil as an award for being “Being a Graystone Great!”.  Since I saw the teacher after school today, I asked her briefly.  She said Logan was talking with a classmate and did not stop after some reminders, so he got a yellow.  I guess Logan is getting more comfortable in class now too.

    Doing homework has been a new routine for all of us.  Logan used to do his homework during the after school program at the previous school and we just needed to review them briefly with him.  Now the responsibility is on us and it has not been too easy.  Logan can be sloppy and inpatient at times, so Stuart or I have to be persistent with him to get all the work done.  It totally requires patience on our end.  Today I tried something different, making part of the work be a game, and it was a much better experience for both of us.