... I would be charmed to receive such a note. I love Calvin and Hobbes and forgot about them... "
DS has been leaving us notes since he was 4. His first was "I have gone out make hot chocolate if I am scared I will call you" A classic was "Dear Mom: I love you. When will you make more cookies?" "Dear Dad, I hate you, drop dead." is taped up to the wall next to my bed. Now if he could just grasp a wee bit of linear thinking, we would be doing well.
The psychiatrist thing is turning out to be a useful role-playing/communication device, actually. I tell the psychiatrist I can't figure out what my son would like to do, for example, and he comes up with a couple of good ideas.