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Waving the white flag RE: school
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<blockquote data-quote="greenrene" data-source="post: 493406" data-attributes="member: 9177"><p>Thank you everyone for your thoughtful responses, I really appreciate the support and the reassurance that I'm not doing a bad thing here.</p><p></p><p>It is really difficult to give others a good picture of what difficult child is like, but I feel like people here understand... she's not awful all the time, or even necessarily every day. But there is a pervasive "something" about her that is just really off. From early childhood, she has found it difficult to socialize appropriately - she was always mean to other kids... it was like she just didn't understand the concept of what "playing nicely" means at all. In recent years, that has translated to a complete lack of friends. This is the only area where the small school has been a problem - less of a "friend pool" to begin with, and her classmates don't seem to like her much (except some of the boys). However, after extensive testing at a local autism treatment center, she didn't test on the spectrum. I'll be reading more on attachment issues as that COULD be a factor, but I'm not sure.</p><p></p><p>There is an IEP meeting coming up soon, and we will definitely be bringing up these concerns. </p><p></p><p>The stepmom thing is very, very difficult. I am the main scapegoat for her wrath, followed closely by my older son. However, her idealization of biomom has lessened recently since difficult child knows that biomom has lost custody of her OTHER child. I think difficult child knows she's much better off with us, but she still resents me. I try hard to shrug off her insults and hatefulness, but sometimes it's hard. As soon as she even STARTS going after my older son, she is sent to her room.</p><p></p><p>Okay, I'm rambling, sorry! Thank you all for responding!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greenrene, post: 493406, member: 9177"] Thank you everyone for your thoughtful responses, I really appreciate the support and the reassurance that I'm not doing a bad thing here. It is really difficult to give others a good picture of what difficult child is like, but I feel like people here understand... she's not awful all the time, or even necessarily every day. But there is a pervasive "something" about her that is just really off. From early childhood, she has found it difficult to socialize appropriately - she was always mean to other kids... it was like she just didn't understand the concept of what "playing nicely" means at all. In recent years, that has translated to a complete lack of friends. This is the only area where the small school has been a problem - less of a "friend pool" to begin with, and her classmates don't seem to like her much (except some of the boys). However, after extensive testing at a local autism treatment center, she didn't test on the spectrum. I'll be reading more on attachment issues as that COULD be a factor, but I'm not sure. There is an IEP meeting coming up soon, and we will definitely be bringing up these concerns. The stepmom thing is very, very difficult. I am the main scapegoat for her wrath, followed closely by my older son. However, her idealization of biomom has lessened recently since difficult child knows that biomom has lost custody of her OTHER child. I think difficult child knows she's much better off with us, but she still resents me. I try hard to shrug off her insults and hatefulness, but sometimes it's hard. As soon as she even STARTS going after my older son, she is sent to her room. Okay, I'm rambling, sorry! Thank you all for responding! [/QUOTE]
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