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<blockquote data-quote="idohope" data-source="post: 561977" data-attributes="member: 7722"><p>Hi,</p><p></p><p>We dealt with school refusal for several years. I think you are doing the right thing. We worked with the school to get a couple of things in place:</p><p></p><p>1) difficult child was allowed to walk in late and did not have to have a parent sign her into the office. (having someone walk in with her helped so long as it was not a parent)</p><p></p><p>2) The principal was generally outside the school as students entered. If we were late he looked for her out his office window. He would come out to escort her in if he could see our car out there and difficult child not getting out.</p><p></p><p>3) we were encouraged to call the school if we were in the parking lot and not able to get her out of the car.</p><p></p><p>4) as a last resort, which we stated to difficult child but did not ever have to actually do, we had the contact info for the police officer assigned to the school.</p><p></p><p>5) she did not take the bus for two years and we drove her each morning. </p><p></p><p>So some of these are similar to you calling guidance. I dont think you are overstepping. I think that is a simple thing for the school to do to get her into the building if it is working.</p><p></p><p>difficult child is doing better with this now. Her school is now within walking distance and she walks a girl a year younger than her. difficult child feels like she needs to be there for this girl and it has actually turned out to be a big help. I had spoken with the mother to say that difficult child might not always be ready on time etc but now difficult child pretty much gets up and gets ready for school and goes. (And I find it hard to believe I am typing those words after years of every morning being so so hard for difficult child and us). So my empathy is with you and your difficult child on this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="idohope, post: 561977, member: 7722"] Hi, We dealt with school refusal for several years. I think you are doing the right thing. We worked with the school to get a couple of things in place: 1) difficult child was allowed to walk in late and did not have to have a parent sign her into the office. (having someone walk in with her helped so long as it was not a parent) 2) The principal was generally outside the school as students entered. If we were late he looked for her out his office window. He would come out to escort her in if he could see our car out there and difficult child not getting out. 3) we were encouraged to call the school if we were in the parking lot and not able to get her out of the car. 4) as a last resort, which we stated to difficult child but did not ever have to actually do, we had the contact info for the police officer assigned to the school. 5) she did not take the bus for two years and we drove her each morning. So some of these are similar to you calling guidance. I dont think you are overstepping. I think that is a simple thing for the school to do to get her into the building if it is working. difficult child is doing better with this now. Her school is now within walking distance and she walks a girl a year younger than her. difficult child feels like she needs to be there for this girl and it has actually turned out to be a big help. I had spoken with the mother to say that difficult child might not always be ready on time etc but now difficult child pretty much gets up and gets ready for school and goes. (And I find it hard to believe I am typing those words after years of every morning being so so hard for difficult child and us). So my empathy is with you and your difficult child on this. [/QUOTE]
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