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Teachers who Enable
If school hasn’t started for you yet, it will be soon. You may be looking forward to having your child in school all day, or you may be dreading the start of the school year because of the fights at...
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Merry Christmas…for who?
I called me son’s teacher a couple nights ago. When she answered I started with usual question of, “Hello, how are you?” Long pause…”Ummm, fine” she unsteadily replied. “Would my son be the reason you...
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Are You Growing?
In previous posts, I referred to my middle son as Orange Shoe Guy (OSG) out of sheer delight for his choice of very bright, orange footwear. I will continue to call him that for the sake of anonymity....
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Slopping Through Murky Waters
As I sit in the hospital with my youngest child my mind drifts back ten years when it was my middle son, OSG, that was having medical issues. The walls have changed but the heart behind those in a...
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Summer Reset
I’m looking at the calendar and freaking out a little: School is right around the corner. In less than two weeks we will leave on our family vacation and when we return, it’s a week until school...
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ARD, IEP and other Alien Words
Our 5-year-old (The Captain) has been in a Pre-K program through the school district these past two years. It’s called PEAR, Pre-School Expessive and Receptive Language program. In short, they teach...
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Advocating
A couple of weeks ago we had the ARD meeting to set my son’s educational plan. At the meeting, we set an uneasy goal to send “The Captain” on to kindergarten next year. I left unsettled. As the next...
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The Captain and School
This week, after nearly a year of waiting, The Captain had his appointment with the Developmental Psychiatrist. We are looking at his cognitive ability and his school readiness. Back in April, we had...
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Advocating for My Loved One
Well, the school year has started for us; I’m sure I will write later about our first day. I couldn’t help but contrast the picture of the start of the year to that imaginary first day of school I...
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Progress
If you follow my blog, you’ll recognize that The Captain has the most “school type” issues. He’s often very well behaved at school; it’s the learning issues we are working through. Surprisingly, his...
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The Ghost of Foster Care (Goes to School)
Our little Miss, Tinker, has just completed her first nine weeks of school. I haven’t seen her “marks” yet, but I can assure you, school is an arena of success for the little monkey. Only one day out...
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