Laugh for the weekend Cute.  My oldest son is very attuned to my stress level (but not so much people he doesn't know as well), and tells me to breathe calmly, etc.  Maybe someday my guy will take his own advice.        Haa! Nice one. Its pretty amazing he can tell when someone is upset or whatever. Im 26 and still cant unless im told what and how they are feeling, cant even tell with my own mom, seriously its quite sad at this point. That is awsome ! Thank you for sharing this . That's so cool!  LOL You never know what they'll come up with. C is a HOOT!  Glad he was so understanding of the situation!  I love the insights!!! So on Thanksgiving the kids staged a minor rebellion (kids being my two 7 year olds, plus nieces and nephews aged 20, 19, 19, 17, 12) and decided that they should all spend the night in my SILs basement.  Since Thanksgiving was at our house that meant packing little suitcases and packing the boys off in with my SIL and family around 8:00 pm.  (Dh and I got a night to ourselves, after massive clean up of course, and SLEPT IN!!!!!)  We are so lucky to have a wonderful family and especially fortunate the cousins are all so close and happy to spend time together even though the age difference is pretty vast. Anyway, my SIL (who is nervous in cars anyway) was lecturing her 17 son, who was driving, about being "extra careful" because there were other people in the car.  My C pipes up "Alex knows what he's doing Aunt Tammy, it's ok."  (This while not even looking up from the DS game he was conquoring at the time.)  Then while they were driving, Tammy told Alex to be careful because of construction and Alex gave her the "I know mom" and they went back and forth a few times and then my C piped up again "Stop arguing.  It hurts my ears.  And Aunt Tammy, you need to calm down a little bit, just give yourself a hug and breath slowly in and out." The whole car I guess erupted in laughter and my SIL says she will never, ever, hear the end of this.  My BIL wants to borrow C for every car trip they take in order to keep his wife in check.  My nieces (twins 19) and nephew (17) are going to tell there mom to give herself and hug and breath in and out every chance they get LOL. The best part is, the technique C was talking about (the self hug and the breathing) is something called "the melt."  It's a technique that the social worker and OT in C's class are working with the kids on and it's supposed to be a self-calming skill to use when the feel upset and to help prevent escalation to meltdowns.  I knew they were doing this but I had no idea how much of it C was getting, but clearly he's understanding it if he knew to apply it to someone else when he saw her getting agitated.  I'd love to get inside his little head for a day to find out what else is rattling around in there... Thought you guys would get a laugh out of this. Your son is brilliant! Mediation work in his future perhaps? Lol. Also, congrats on the sleeping in!
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