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Prayers here!! When I taught we once had a lockdown because of a threat in an elementary school, and while it was just a precaution and nothing at all happened, it sure made for a lot of nervous teachers and parents. No fun...huge hugs and hope it's nothing!
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I was helping my 5-year-old look for a specific lego piece from his pile. I told him I was getting frustrated, and he said, "Mom, don't look with your heart, look with your eyes!"
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Prayers here!
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My son is approaching Kindergarten the exact same way. I'm not sure I have much advice, but I will definitely be following this post! Over the weekend, I decided to basically "unschool" for a while (and not use my carefully chosen curriculum for now...sigh...) Today we just followed ds's interests, and we learned about Pompeii, volcanoes, and archeology; we built legos like crazy, did some read-alouds...we actually ended up doing a lot, with NO fuss. He even ASKED me to read Life of Fred! What a difference! At the end of the day, I even dared to ask him if school had been fun, and he said yes! I fully intend to still go back to the curriculum eventually, but for now I think I will just "sneak" the learning in too!
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:grouphug: and prayers!!
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Prayers and huge :grouphug:.
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Prayers here!
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Got mine!
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I have admired the image, but had no idea it was a link. However, I am so generally clueless with technology, that unless there is a big arrow and a sign that says "BLOG LINK HERE" I might not get it. So I'm probably not the best one to judge by. I always think that if I had been born two years later I would find everything related to computers SO much more intuitive, like my little brother does. I went to college with a typewriter, lol!
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Why in the world is she back in school?! I would have never settled for the school to just pay for psychological damage control. A nice cushy homeschool fund, private tutors, and the best field trips ever.
She stripped naked because she wasn't allowed to use the bathroom and dudn't want to wet her clothes, but goes back to school saying that it's ok, they just didn't know how to work with children!?
This exactly. It's absolutely horrifying. That poor, poor child. How many other kids are going through this?
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I'm 44 and my youngest is 5, and I definitely feel like the older mom at events geared towards 5-year-olds. That said, one of my closest friends is at least 10 years younger than me, and we click SO well. I may have lived a few years longer, and I do have tweens/teens and she doesn't, but she and I approach the world in so much the same way. We are both introspective and love to bounce ideas off each other. No two people's lives are exactly the same, and I think for us age is just one of the things that is different but totally not an issue.
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Prayers! I sometimes get nervous too when my hubby flies...
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No advice as I just started homeschooling kindergarten 2 weeks ago, but I wanted to say welcome too!
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I'm glad everyone's fine!! That would freak me out too. It's funny, I've never had trouble with the police, but I do get a little freaked out by them. Whenever I drive by one I always immediately hit the breaks - it's like an instinct - and I worry that I'm somehow doing something wrong. And I'm a really nerdy, cautious driver! I would be freaked out by the police asking to come inside too.
'Course, the funny thing is, there is a police officer in my lifegroup at church, and he is just the nicest guy. Without the uniform on he is not intimidating at all. Maybe it's the uniform thing?
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Prayers for your son and your whole family! :grouphug:
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I'm so sorry. Prayers for you and your family...
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It looks awesome!! I wish my hair would do that!
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No real advice here, but I wanted to offer :grouphug:! I'm in the same boat with my son. I had so much fun planning all summer, and it just never occurred to me that he would just not want to do it at all!
Oh, one thing that I have found helpful so far was to figure out when during the day he is happiest to do some of the more "instructional" things. (And really, I mean like 10 minutes of phonics and 10 minutes of math, and maybe 5 minutes of handwriting.) I had planned to do this all in the morning, to leave the rest of the day for more "fun" hand-on stuff, but it turns out my ds is just not ready in the morning. At all. So now we do the fun stuff in the morning and his core subjects in the afternoon, and for him this is working out much better. He still says "Hooray!" when the school day is over (sigh) but at least he is much less resistant and whiny about school in general.
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Ok, I'm crying I'm laughing so hard!! Thank you ...that was great!!
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I actually think I do look better. I spent most of my life with severe IBS and I was told to just get used to it. I could keep very little food in my system, and I was always painfully thin, with gaunt cheeks etc. I just looked unhealthy. Then about two years ago I discovered that medical science had advanced since I was a child and there was a medicine that would help me. It has really given me a new life in many ways! One of the ways is that I gained 25 lbs and for the first time in my life I have curves! I really should probably lose weight at this point, but I finally feel healthy and I feel like this is the weight my body is meant to be. I feel much better in my body now, much less gawky.
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My 8 year old is always complaining about tiny aches and pains as though he was dying. Daily. Headaches, muscle aches, toothaches, excessive itchiness, we've heard about it (usually at bed time).
My dd has done this for years. It is caused by anxiety, and is also a delaying tactic at bedtime. She really does feel the symptoms, but they are generally caused by stress. Plus, I think lying still in bed at bedtime she has more of a chance to listen to her body. She is very sensitive in general (tags on clothes, seams on socks, decorations on clothes all bother her).
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Yay! Good news! Thanks for letting us know.
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And then there are locks. We live in a CITY. Lock the door. Every time you go through it. Yes. Every time. Without fail. That is all.
:iagree: I even lock my empty cars in the driveway. And we live in the middle of nowhere! That's what 5 years of living in LA gets me, lol!
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:grouphug: I hope this appointment opens up all these doors for you!
:iagree: The wait times are so frustrating, aren't they? My ds has sensory issues and we feel might be on the spectrum. One of the clinics our insurance covers has a 2 1/2 year waiting list, and the other has no openings at all!! Ugh!! So glad you were able to get in sooner, and I really do hope it helps you get services sooner.
Just as another thought, do you possibly have a University nearby that might offer services through their OT or Speech clinics? It can be a very inexpensive option.
Oh, and I also wanted to add...my son punches and slaps himself in the face all the time. If I stop him, he tries to use my hand to slap himself (!). I have seen him try to get other kids to hit him in the face too. It is definitely a sensory thing, but so hard to see!!
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