It's like everything is a competition in his head and he needs to win win WIN to feel ok. I've noticed it has gotten a lot worse the last 3 weeks when he's only missed 1 day of school. We didn't have this problem over the winter when he was sick a lot and home half the time. Now that he's at school every morning it's horrible. I wonder if it's because he spends the mornings having to comply all the time with what the teacher tells him and when he gets home he just needs to fill that need for running his own life? Ha was BORN self-directed.