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concerned and worried about difficult child 2... Hoping for suggestions.
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<blockquote data-quote="exhausted" data-source="post: 451487" data-attributes="member: 11001"><p>First a big hug to you! You sound like a mother this boy is lucky to have. That said, holding a child back at this age is not a good idea, esp. given his issues. The general education community would really frown on this unless there is some good empiracle evidence to support giving him another year now. He is entitled to 2 extra years to graduate as a special education student. I know that can be touchy in high school but sometimes it is so helpful esp. when vocational training is available. Many high schools work with the local community college and offer training for free! Our son was able to get several of his mechanic certificates this way at no cost to us. Just an idea. What does difficult child 2 say about this? Secondly, reading issues are tough, at his age he needs to be reading to learn, so I second the books on tape thing and continuing to help him at home with learning to read. Some schools even have programs on computers that can read text. As for the anger and frustration, there are so many ways to communicate this besides words. The trick is finding a healthy way-and I agree he may not even know what is going on inside himself. Animals can be a big help. There are therapy dogs that visit our library and "help" kids read. Maybe you can find out if this is a posibility where you live. As for being bullied, you cannot allow this to go on. Inform his new school that it has been a problem, inform his teacher and ask what kind of training she does to prevent this in her classroom. What is done on the play ground and other unstructured times (most bullying goes on during these times)? Is there a schoolwide antibully program? Let him know that bulling is a problem for the big people at a school and that you will support him. Help him find some personal tools that can help him should he encounter bullying again. By the way,the punishment he gave himself is so harsh in my humble opinion! He must feel pretty bad about what happened.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="exhausted, post: 451487, member: 11001"] First a big hug to you! You sound like a mother this boy is lucky to have. That said, holding a child back at this age is not a good idea, esp. given his issues. The general education community would really frown on this unless there is some good empiracle evidence to support giving him another year now. He is entitled to 2 extra years to graduate as a special education student. I know that can be touchy in high school but sometimes it is so helpful esp. when vocational training is available. Many high schools work with the local community college and offer training for free! Our son was able to get several of his mechanic certificates this way at no cost to us. Just an idea. What does difficult child 2 say about this? Secondly, reading issues are tough, at his age he needs to be reading to learn, so I second the books on tape thing and continuing to help him at home with learning to read. Some schools even have programs on computers that can read text. As for the anger and frustration, there are so many ways to communicate this besides words. The trick is finding a healthy way-and I agree he may not even know what is going on inside himself. Animals can be a big help. There are therapy dogs that visit our library and "help" kids read. Maybe you can find out if this is a posibility where you live. As for being bullied, you cannot allow this to go on. Inform his new school that it has been a problem, inform his teacher and ask what kind of training she does to prevent this in her classroom. What is done on the play ground and other unstructured times (most bullying goes on during these times)? Is there a schoolwide antibully program? Let him know that bulling is a problem for the big people at a school and that you will support him. Help him find some personal tools that can help him should he encounter bullying again. By the way,the punishment he gave himself is so harsh in my humble opinion! He must feel pretty bad about what happened. [/QUOTE]
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