Pants On the Ground

I worked at school today and when Kane's para brings him to me he has on these ugly faded black gym shorts over his pants. I look at him and he looks down. He knows he is in trouble. He knows I am not going to like the answer to. "Kane, what happened to your pants?" You see this has happened before. Like just last Friday before. When I took the boys I work with to Special Olympics practice, he was there too. He was not wearing the same pants I had put him in that morning, instead he was wearing some really awesome shorts that fit him perfectly. His para said that he had gotten a small rip in his pants earlier in the day. She thought nothing of this and took him outside for recess. Well I knew where this was going. You see Kane can not leave a hole alone. He MUST rip it into a bigger hole. If a paper or page has a small rip in it he MUST finish it and rip it all the way. He has ripped many books, video case covers, magazines,ect. This has recently reached to his clothes. It began with socks, went to pajamas, and now has reached his pants.

Friday the hole was in the leg of his pants. He ripped it into this huge gaping hole, there was no salvaging the pants, they had to go straight to the trash! So when I asked him what happened today, I knew it. He ripped another pair. This time right in the seat of his pants. Again it started as a small little hole. Mrs. Briley had seen it, but she didn't think he had noticed. But next thing she know he stood up from the computer and he had another gaping hole in the seat of his pants. Whe she asked him what his mom would say about it, he said, " I'm in touble."

Here's the thing, he knows he shouldn't do it. He knows he is not supposed to rip things. He knows he will get in trouble but he CAN NOT seem to help himself. I can not leave him alone with Library books, and now he has ruined two pairs of pants (that still fit by the way). I am not quite sure what to do. He has been disciplined for this very thing, many times and many ways.

When Brian came home, he had a talk with him again. He explained to him that I can fix a small hole, if he will just tell me and not rip it We'll see if this helps and if he will come to us before ripping his pants. I fear next time we might find his "pants on the ground" and the waistband left around his waist.