Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New profile posts
Latest activity
Internet Search
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
Parent Support Forums
General Parenting
New Here ~ Brain Overload
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Calgon_Take_Me_Away" data-source="post: 178398" data-attributes="member: 5645"><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: darkorchid">Thank you for the welcome and info. At times I feel so out of it in that I feel my child's issues aren't as bad as other kids, but around "normal" people, I feel as if they think something is wrong with me because my son has all these problems.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #9932cc">I feel the need to explain myself to the family unit because from time to time they do watch the kids for me. Because of their attitudes, I try to do it as little as possible. I have a good friend who tries to help when she can, but she has an ADHD boy also. He & GHG don't click at all so she can only help when he's at his moms.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #9932cc">I don't do much with-o the kids because the worry of leaving them with- a babysitter and what ghg will try pulling. If I have time for myself, it's when husband is home or the kids are in school. husband constantly tells me to go do something by myself, but I feel naked with-o the kids tagging along. I've taken them everywhere for so long that it's what I expect to do. It drives me crazy when I see people leaving their kids with- a sitter all the time to just go out. I vowed I would be the one to raise my kids ~ not a babysitter.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #9932cc">I'm working on getting out of the house with-o kids, though. GHG's therapist invited me to be a core member of the organizational end of a local chapter of a national mental illness organization (didn't know if I could say their name). I'm chairperson of the Parents of Kids program, took on committee chair for the newsletter and involved in 4 other committees. We plan to take it public in September. Through this organization, I've also been accepted to attend teacher training in Sept. I would be teaching an 8 week class to parents, caregivers, support circles of children with- mental health issues giving them resources, education and support.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #9932cc">Another big step for me is that GHG's therapist has asked if I would be intered in co-facilitating a sex offender treatment group with him starting in Sept when his caseload reaches 4 aggreesive offenders. This will give me some experience that I lack in my field of interest/career.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #9932cc">Part of me is so ready to get out of the house and start working again, but the other part of me worries if I'll be able to because of the issues that arise with- GHG. When he was having rages, it would knock me so out of whack ~ I felt completely scattered and my mind wasn't organized.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #9932cc">I looked back over our reports from the university ~ the testing done was educational, psychological, occupational therapy, physican, nutritionist, speech. Each professional spent an hour with him doing various tests. They addressed/diagnosed uneven cognitive development and how it will eventually lead to learning disabilities; receptive/expressive language disorder. Has he been diagnosed with those or just that they have results that point to it? I've never held any of our reports from any part of our treatment circle from school to therapist to psychiatric's to general physician. I've signed all the papers giving permission to all to communicate with- each other. I have nothing to hide because what it boils down to is I know there's something wrong with- my son and I will get him the help he needs to "suceed in life" (whatever that success may mean).</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Calgon_Take_Me_Away, post: 178398, member: 5645"] [SIZE=4][COLOR=darkorchid]Thank you for the welcome and info. At times I feel so out of it in that I feel my child's issues aren't as bad as other kids, but around "normal" people, I feel as if they think something is wrong with me because my son has all these problems.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][COLOR=#9932cc][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][COLOR=#9932cc]I feel the need to explain myself to the family unit because from time to time they do watch the kids for me. Because of their attitudes, I try to do it as little as possible. I have a good friend who tries to help when she can, but she has an ADHD boy also. He & GHG don't click at all so she can only help when he's at his moms.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][COLOR=#9932cc][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][COLOR=#9932cc]I don't do much with-o the kids because the worry of leaving them with- a babysitter and what ghg will try pulling. If I have time for myself, it's when husband is home or the kids are in school. husband constantly tells me to go do something by myself, but I feel naked with-o the kids tagging along. I've taken them everywhere for so long that it's what I expect to do. It drives me crazy when I see people leaving their kids with- a sitter all the time to just go out. I vowed I would be the one to raise my kids ~ not a babysitter.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][COLOR=#9932cc][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][COLOR=#9932cc]I'm working on getting out of the house with-o kids, though. GHG's therapist invited me to be a core member of the organizational end of a local chapter of a national mental illness organization (didn't know if I could say their name). I'm chairperson of the Parents of Kids program, took on committee chair for the newsletter and involved in 4 other committees. We plan to take it public in September. Through this organization, I've also been accepted to attend teacher training in Sept. I would be teaching an 8 week class to parents, caregivers, support circles of children with- mental health issues giving them resources, education and support.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][COLOR=#9932cc][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][COLOR=#9932cc]Another big step for me is that GHG's therapist has asked if I would be intered in co-facilitating a sex offender treatment group with him starting in Sept when his caseload reaches 4 aggreesive offenders. This will give me some experience that I lack in my field of interest/career.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][COLOR=#9932cc][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][COLOR=#9932cc]Part of me is so ready to get out of the house and start working again, but the other part of me worries if I'll be able to because of the issues that arise with- GHG. When he was having rages, it would knock me so out of whack ~ I felt completely scattered and my mind wasn't organized.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][COLOR=#9932cc][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][COLOR=#9932cc]I looked back over our reports from the university ~ the testing done was educational, psychological, occupational therapy, physican, nutritionist, speech. Each professional spent an hour with him doing various tests. They addressed/diagnosed uneven cognitive development and how it will eventually lead to learning disabilities; receptive/expressive language disorder. Has he been diagnosed with those or just that they have results that point to it? I've never held any of our reports from any part of our treatment circle from school to therapist to psychiatric's to general physician. I've signed all the papers giving permission to all to communicate with- each other. I have nothing to hide because what it boils down to is I know there's something wrong with- my son and I will get him the help he needs to "suceed in life" (whatever that success may mean).[/COLOR][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Parent Support Forums
General Parenting
New Here ~ Brain Overload
Top