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<blockquote data-quote="Thinking Outside the Box" data-source="post: 315283" data-attributes="member: 8210"><p><span style="color: orange">Hello, lmf64! Some similarities with my difficult child, but I can only tell you what I would do. With my difficult child, the year on the ring would not be significant, it would be the ring itself. So, I would see if not putting a year on it was an option, first. If it wasn't, I guess, I would still get him one, especially with having such an improvement in your difficult child's behavior. I don't like to let my kids know that I may have doubts about their abilities, achieving goals, etc and I would feel like I was saying my difficult child wasn't capable and causing more doubt. My oldest son struggled with making it to graduation. I had told him all along that I knew he could do it and will do it, that it was not acceptable for him not to (he does not have any learning disabilities). When it came time to order his graduation stuff, how could I not? If I hadn't, that would've for me, shown him that there was a part of me that didn't believe in him. He graduated and is starting college winter semester. Now, my other son, is much like your difficult child as far as his academic abilities go. He is almost 12 and is reading at a 1st grade 1 month level. Math is his most difficult. He has learned some very basic small number addition and subtraction using touch math. Before touch math he just could never even count to 10. He is learning to use a calculator as well. He is in middle school and sometimes I wonder why when over all he is at a 1st grade level. What's he really going to get out of all these years of schooling other then frustration? I would get my son the ring; I hope it helps. Take care!</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thinking Outside the Box, post: 315283, member: 8210"] [COLOR=orange]Hello, lmf64! Some similarities with my difficult child, but I can only tell you what I would do. With my difficult child, the year on the ring would not be significant, it would be the ring itself. So, I would see if not putting a year on it was an option, first. If it wasn't, I guess, I would still get him one, especially with having such an improvement in your difficult child's behavior. I don't like to let my kids know that I may have doubts about their abilities, achieving goals, etc and I would feel like I was saying my difficult child wasn't capable and causing more doubt. My oldest son struggled with making it to graduation. I had told him all along that I knew he could do it and will do it, that it was not acceptable for him not to (he does not have any learning disabilities). When it came time to order his graduation stuff, how could I not? If I hadn't, that would've for me, shown him that there was a part of me that didn't believe in him. He graduated and is starting college winter semester. Now, my other son, is much like your difficult child as far as his academic abilities go. He is almost 12 and is reading at a 1st grade 1 month level. Math is his most difficult. He has learned some very basic small number addition and subtraction using touch math. Before touch math he just could never even count to 10. He is learning to use a calculator as well. He is in middle school and sometimes I wonder why when over all he is at a 1st grade level. What's he really going to get out of all these years of schooling other then frustration? I would get my son the ring; I hope it helps. Take care![/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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