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difficult child 1 home with GI issues. Again.
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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 387769" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>I was thinking that he likely needs homebound instruction right now. one of the things that makes Crohns and IBS MUCH worse is stress. I realize that homebound is probably NOT going to be fun for you, but it may be what is needed. Or online classes that he can do at whatever time of the day works for him. </p><p> </p><p>How are his grades? I know in high school there can be an enormous volume of work. Lots and lots of math problems, etc... One thing a friend did with her son was to midify the amount of homework and classwork he did. The sheer quantity was just too much. At the time the schools pushed teachers to assign 1 hour of homework per class per day. So if you have 7 classes at school you had to do homework from 4 pm to 11 pm just to keep up. If you had a hard time learning the material you were seriously in trouble. Most math assignments are designed with the easiest problems at the beginning and the hardest at the end. So with their modifications her son did the last ten problems (roughly 10% of the assignments for his algebra class). If he understood them and got them correct he didn't have to go back and do the others. If he had problems he had to go back and work 10% of the problems for each problem he missed. She also trimmed his book reports. His teacher gave them about ten different things for the book report and they had to do 8 of them. Make a poster, a story web, write a summary for the book cover, write a 10 page paper, create a diorama, etc... To get a passing grade on the book reports took rougly fifteen hours of work - and they did 2 a MONTH this way! Her son fell apart due to the pressure and had about every stress related problem possible, including heart problems and chest pains, until she got him on an IEP and forced the school to back off on the assignments.</p><p> </p><p>Maybe difficult child 1 needs his assignments trimmed this way also. Do enough to make sure he grasps the concepts but not swamp him with a lot of busy work that isn't really helping anyway, Know what I mean??</p><p> </p><p>I hope he feels better soon.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 387769, member: 1233"] I was thinking that he likely needs homebound instruction right now. one of the things that makes Crohns and IBS MUCH worse is stress. I realize that homebound is probably NOT going to be fun for you, but it may be what is needed. Or online classes that he can do at whatever time of the day works for him. How are his grades? I know in high school there can be an enormous volume of work. Lots and lots of math problems, etc... One thing a friend did with her son was to midify the amount of homework and classwork he did. The sheer quantity was just too much. At the time the schools pushed teachers to assign 1 hour of homework per class per day. So if you have 7 classes at school you had to do homework from 4 pm to 11 pm just to keep up. If you had a hard time learning the material you were seriously in trouble. Most math assignments are designed with the easiest problems at the beginning and the hardest at the end. So with their modifications her son did the last ten problems (roughly 10% of the assignments for his algebra class). If he understood them and got them correct he didn't have to go back and do the others. If he had problems he had to go back and work 10% of the problems for each problem he missed. She also trimmed his book reports. His teacher gave them about ten different things for the book report and they had to do 8 of them. Make a poster, a story web, write a summary for the book cover, write a 10 page paper, create a diorama, etc... To get a passing grade on the book reports took rougly fifteen hours of work - and they did 2 a MONTH this way! Her son fell apart due to the pressure and had about every stress related problem possible, including heart problems and chest pains, until she got him on an IEP and forced the school to back off on the assignments. Maybe difficult child 1 needs his assignments trimmed this way also. Do enough to make sure he grasps the concepts but not swamp him with a lot of busy work that isn't really helping anyway, Know what I mean?? I hope he feels better soon. [/QUOTE]
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