good news regarding shopping

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My son has actually started being my helper when we go to the grocery store and/or mall. It's been an amazing transformation. When he was much younger, there were many times when I had to leave the mall or the grocery store without getting what I needed to get done.

He pushes the cart for me in the grocery store now and helps me tote the bags. He hasn't had a public meltdown in a few months.

He's developing self-control. (he just turned 10 last month).

Isn't it great? My son can be an amazing help, now at 11. I've heard it's kind of the calm before the storm - before hormones, teenage rebellion, and all that - but it's still precious. He likes to select the vegetables and he likes to help chop and cook. He can be such a big help to me in so many ways now.

He will sometimes verbalize that he's had enough, that we need to wrap it up, and I respect that. It's part of self-insight, it's not manipulation. Our kids DO grow up.

Hopefully something for me to look forward to.

We got some great shopping news today - the brass band that has been making our shopping centre into a place of torture has been asked not to play there anymore

Apparently the Salvation Army Brass Band would show up and just start playing in the shopping centre without asking. The noise and echo's were horrible for me and would set Heidi off screaming even if we were up the other end of the centre from them.

Big fuss in the paper about how terrible it is but I for one am happy and relieved and going to email the shopping centre management to say thank you.

glad it seems to be going well.....for a period of time when son was younger, he found that shopping was less intrusive to his senses if he had a "job"- like pushing the cart, or looking for specific items for me........now, however, he abbhors shopping. he does whatever he can to avoid it.