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How Do You Get Your Kids To Tell You Whats Wrong?
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<blockquote data-quote="confuzzled" data-source="post: 637779" data-attributes="member: 8831"><p>isn't she now in a public school or do I have you confused with someone else?</p><p></p><p>if she is, and now the teachers are requesting testing....</p><p></p><p>what are you waiting for? start the school testing and worry about a medical diagnosis as your appointments come up...clearly even the school is identifying a need, so there shouldn't be much of a stretch to begin the process.</p><p></p><p><em>something</em> is impacting her education and it would be worth figuring out what it is.</p><p></p><p>as for your question, she may not actually know. I try not to ask (important) open ended questions where a one word answer suffices....i'd start every day with a different class and ask elaborate questions about it---like, "hey, in science today did you do labs or did the teacher lecture? oh, lab?? how was your group...did you all work well or did one person get stuck doing everything?? oh, you did owls and mice? do you need graph paper for that lab...yada, yada, yada....(pause in between for actual answers, lol).</p><p></p><p>but how was science? will pretty much get you "fine".</p><p></p><p>i'd keep teasing info out of her until the story comes out....if its a specific school issue eventually it will tumble out of her.</p><p></p><p>in my experience, what <em>doesn't</em> work is threatening. or pressuring.</p><p></p><p>i'd also be in touch with the guidance dept and ask her counsellor to check in regularly with her--maybe every week, maybe every day. sometimes an impartial person can get more insight into a teenager than a mom can.</p><p></p><p>but breathe. worry about today--not 4 years from now. even typical kids at this age have issues.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="confuzzled, post: 637779, member: 8831"] isn't she now in a public school or do I have you confused with someone else? if she is, and now the teachers are requesting testing.... what are you waiting for? start the school testing and worry about a medical diagnosis as your appointments come up...clearly even the school is identifying a need, so there shouldn't be much of a stretch to begin the process. [I]something[/I] is impacting her education and it would be worth figuring out what it is. as for your question, she may not actually know. I try not to ask (important) open ended questions where a one word answer suffices....i'd start every day with a different class and ask elaborate questions about it---like, "hey, in science today did you do labs or did the teacher lecture? oh, lab?? how was your group...did you all work well or did one person get stuck doing everything?? oh, you did owls and mice? do you need graph paper for that lab...yada, yada, yada....(pause in between for actual answers, lol). but how was science? will pretty much get you "fine". i'd keep teasing info out of her until the story comes out....if its a specific school issue eventually it will tumble out of her. in my experience, what [I]doesn't[/I] work is threatening. or pressuring. i'd also be in touch with the guidance dept and ask her counsellor to check in regularly with her--maybe every week, maybe every day. sometimes an impartial person can get more insight into a teenager than a mom can. but breathe. worry about today--not 4 years from now. even typical kids at this age have issues. [/QUOTE]
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