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<blockquote data-quote="rob#30" data-source="post: 182506" data-attributes="member: 5702"><p>OMG!! I absolutely love you guys! It is so unbelieveably refreshing to sit here and read posts from other people who are JUST LIKE ME!!! An answer to Dazed & Confused... difficult child sees a therapist once a week. I am guilty of not exactly telling her everything all of the time. I know that sounds crazy but I am new at this & like I said before, a lot of his behavior is embarassing & confusing to me. I have always truly felt that is was a reflection on my parenting skills. I am just now learning that I have been keeping secrets for difficult child for so long that nobody really knows what Im going through. I broke down today & called his therapist and spilled my guts to her. We are going to see her on Tues. She was a little shocked at all that I told her... Smoking Pot, Innapropriate downloads on computer, etc.. She needs to "process all of it" and she will talk to us about it on Tues. difficult child does not know I told her, this ought to be a wonderful visit!! As for school, I fought tooth & nail this past school year to have him tested for Special Education. Again, I never told anyone about ADHD. Not even school so they were all very resistant to Special Education testing. Once I confessed about ADHD it was like Ohhhhhh, thats whats wrong with him! I cried my eyes out like an idiot in front of all of them. Again, GUILT. I had to write to the board of ED to get them to test him. No one thought he would qualify....guess what? He did! It was at the very end of the year so we will see this year how much it helps. Hes an average student in most areas. He excells in math, technology, phys ed. Eng, SS & Science only so-so. Hes got lots of friends but he never really deals with them out of school. This past year he had some issues @ school. His math teacher was the girls basketball coach as well. She had the championship game ball set up on a display with all of the players autographs on it. Well, difficult child decided to add his autograph to it, in permanent black marker! Hes told to stay after, he dosent because "he forgot" I cant wait for school to start again! You all have given me wonderful ideas about the phone calls, thanks!<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rob#30, post: 182506, member: 5702"] OMG!! I absolutely love you guys! It is so unbelieveably refreshing to sit here and read posts from other people who are JUST LIKE ME!!! An answer to Dazed & Confused... difficult child sees a therapist once a week. I am guilty of not exactly telling her everything all of the time. I know that sounds crazy but I am new at this & like I said before, a lot of his behavior is embarassing & confusing to me. I have always truly felt that is was a reflection on my parenting skills. I am just now learning that I have been keeping secrets for difficult child for so long that nobody really knows what Im going through. I broke down today & called his therapist and spilled my guts to her. We are going to see her on Tues. She was a little shocked at all that I told her... Smoking Pot, Innapropriate downloads on computer, etc.. She needs to "process all of it" and she will talk to us about it on Tues. difficult child does not know I told her, this ought to be a wonderful visit!! As for school, I fought tooth & nail this past school year to have him tested for Special Education. Again, I never told anyone about ADHD. Not even school so they were all very resistant to Special Education testing. Once I confessed about ADHD it was like Ohhhhhh, thats whats wrong with him! I cried my eyes out like an idiot in front of all of them. Again, GUILT. I had to write to the board of ED to get them to test him. No one thought he would qualify....guess what? He did! It was at the very end of the year so we will see this year how much it helps. Hes an average student in most areas. He excells in math, technology, phys ed. Eng, SS & Science only so-so. Hes got lots of friends but he never really deals with them out of school. This past year he had some issues @ school. His math teacher was the girls basketball coach as well. She had the championship game ball set up on a display with all of the players autographs on it. Well, difficult child decided to add his autograph to it, in permanent black marker! Hes told to stay after, he dosent because "he forgot" I cant wait for school to start again! You all have given me wonderful ideas about the phone calls, thanks!:winking: [/QUOTE]
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