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<blockquote data-quote="LittleDudesMom" data-source="post: 293373" data-attributes="member: 805"><p>Hi Mandy!</p><p> </p><p>Raising my hand as a mom who went through school rages. I have a couple suggestions.</p><p> </p><p>First and foremost, I would meet his teacher. I would imagine that he will have only one main teacher (probably art, pe and music in there somewhere). I would meet with the teacher before school starts to introduce your son - minus your son. Don't give her the worst of it, but don't sugar coat it either.</p><p> </p><p>Before the meeting, think hard on what the triggers are with your son as well as what has worked in the past to calm or redirect him. When you speak with the teacher, let her know that he is a bright little boy who is experiencing some issues you are having him evaluated for. You have already requested testing through the school.</p><p> </p><p>Offer her some funny antitodes about your son, some examples of how he learns, and then offer her some insight into his raging. DON'T call it raging though. Rather, let her know that when he gets anxious and frustrated, here are signs (if there are physical signs - there were with my son). Let her know what seems to really redirect or calm your son. For mine at a young age, it was being allowed to go to the reading center in the classroom and look at a book for awhile. Also, feeding the fish or just going to the table with his chair to watch them helped him calm a little. Another thing that really helped was going to see the school nurse. It removed him from a situation that could be volitile and he loved that nurse! Allowing him time to draw also seemed to help.</p><p> </p><p>It was really important for my son that he was not talked to a lot when he was in a rage - that only made it worse. Rather than taking comfort in the words of a teacher, all he hears was "wa wa wa" (like on Charlie Brown) and it just aggrivated him more. He just needed to shut down for awhile.</p><p> </p><p>You are not alone in being anxious about school starting. At the height of my son's school ragng (never once did he rage at home!), I lived for Friday afternoon when I would have 2.5 days of not fearing everytime the phone rang!</p><p> </p><p>Good luck.</p><p> </p><p>Sharon</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LittleDudesMom, post: 293373, member: 805"] Hi Mandy! Raising my hand as a mom who went through school rages. I have a couple suggestions. First and foremost, I would meet his teacher. I would imagine that he will have only one main teacher (probably art, pe and music in there somewhere). I would meet with the teacher before school starts to introduce your son - minus your son. Don't give her the worst of it, but don't sugar coat it either. Before the meeting, think hard on what the triggers are with your son as well as what has worked in the past to calm or redirect him. When you speak with the teacher, let her know that he is a bright little boy who is experiencing some issues you are having him evaluated for. You have already requested testing through the school. Offer her some funny antitodes about your son, some examples of how he learns, and then offer her some insight into his raging. DON'T call it raging though. Rather, let her know that when he gets anxious and frustrated, here are signs (if there are physical signs - there were with my son). Let her know what seems to really redirect or calm your son. For mine at a young age, it was being allowed to go to the reading center in the classroom and look at a book for awhile. Also, feeding the fish or just going to the table with his chair to watch them helped him calm a little. Another thing that really helped was going to see the school nurse. It removed him from a situation that could be volitile and he loved that nurse! Allowing him time to draw also seemed to help. It was really important for my son that he was not talked to a lot when he was in a rage - that only made it worse. Rather than taking comfort in the words of a teacher, all he hears was "wa wa wa" (like on Charlie Brown) and it just aggrivated him more. He just needed to shut down for awhile. You are not alone in being anxious about school starting. At the height of my son's school ragng (never once did he rage at home!), I lived for Friday afternoon when I would have 2.5 days of not fearing everytime the phone rang! Good luck. Sharon [/QUOTE]
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