I don't know about it ever "ending" but I do see that changes occur, that what seems like it permanence becomes impermanent and that I often don't notice until after the change has occurred. So many of the improvements and steps forward are so small, and are followed by steps backward in other areas, it can feel crazy making. Other times I am able to really see how far my son has come over the years. A lot of it depends on my own perspective and attitude -- when I am exhausted and haven't been able to do anything other than be a mother for a long time, I can get pretty discouraged. When I'm well rested and have had a chance to take care of myself, I often feel encouraged, or at least at peace with it all. So I try to remember that, too, when things are really feeling hard -- that my own perspective has gone through many changes over time, so when I am feeling discouraged I can know that even that will eventually change.

Good point mom2zo, thank you.

My son lives in chaos. He loves for his room to be clean, but it only last for moments ... I have to stay on top of him CONSTANTLY telling him the same things over and over. I have yet to see much improvement in his issues and we've been brushing and massaging to such an extent that we started to slack off a bit. I want to see progress faster than I'm seeing it. It is trying.

Today he cried and said, "Why me? Why do I have this?" and I explained that some kids live with much more: blind, deaf, without an arm or leg, etc. I explained he will outgrow most of this, and that he just needs to be patient and see it as a challenge.

Ahhhhhhhhhh--we have not crossed that bridge yet. I dread the day we do. Brushing and all that has never helped with our son, but we have been told that its because his sensory issues are primarily motor based and not tactile even though he has a few issues with clothes, and textures, it's not a big influence on him, so they said the brushing would not be affective for him. We massage in our house, so that is just a common thing for us to do--we all enjoy getting them. Whether it's affective for his SID symptoms, who knows--I think massaging all in all is relaxing with or without the condition. We still have to keep on our son as well--his room will be a diseaster within a couple of minutes. He has no problem making the mess(because as I say he loves chaos) it's getting the mess picked up. We literally have to say to him--Okay lets pick up the red legos and put them in the bucket(we have to be specific which bucket)--then we move on to the characters, etc etc. We have gone back to using a timer because he's at the age now where he likes to play beat the clock--so that has been very helpful. It's a challenge for us as well. When his teachers said he has a good memory my husband and I just looked at each other in shock--then we realized--Yeah for anything he sees visually. To remember a paragraph that he read--NOPE. So part of his accomodations include visual guides for everything. He's with a new special ed teacher and he is loving her. She is teaching him how to make a star by crossing over the lines--which why his OT has not done this yet is beyond me--but hey he's getting it now that is what is important. He came home so excited that he could do a star that when he went to do it for me he forgot. So I worked with him on it last night and by bed time he nailed it. Not perfectly but hey it's progress!!!

My daughter goes through this. Is it todays generation? The foods they eat and drink? A.d.d. A.d.h.d.?