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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 440295" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>I am constantly amazed that school thinks the things that JJJ's eeyore needs are extreme. WHY is it extreme or a problem for a kid or every kid to o work somewhere other than a desk? Or to provide a cave type place for a kid to go to if the alternative is bad behavior, rages, violence?? in my opinion some of these teachers need to spend a few days trapped in sensory overload and not allowed to do ANYTHING to make it better. </p><p></p><p>I used to drag an old crib mattress (kept under my bed for sleepovers or for me to sleep on when a cousin came and used my bed) into my closet and pillows and then throw any/everything I could into the opening so I was barricaded (usually by my army of stuffed animals). I kept a flashlight and a handful of books back there and would spend hours in there. I have a LOT of vivid memories of childhood and the times I went in there were often to get away from gfgbro and the fighting that happened. Oddly enough I retreated more when he fought with my folks than when he fought with and/or attacked me. I can remember falling asleep in there one afternoon and my mother frantically digging all the animals out of the way because she had been looking for me for an hour. I was probably about three at the time and they were frantic because I didnt' come to dinner or answer when they called. I remember waking up to my mom shaking me and being all upset and thinking "why is she bothering me? I was all cozy and safe finally and got some sleep and what is her <em>problem</em>? ( I have an odd memory inherited from my dad and his mother and these are as vivid to me as if I watched them on tv but felt what the people on tv felt.) After that my mom knew I would hole up back there and would sleep there, so she wasn't as upset until she checked it if I was not somewhere more easily found. For a while I switched to under my bed to be my cave, but it was too hard to read there. Picture books are too big to open up under a bed. Now if we had those bed risers, WOW! I could have done something with those on my bed!</p><p></p><p>Anyway, I think if he needs it he needs it. It would have to be a lot for me to think it was too extreme. I was the one who took away permission for my child to use the internet - and every single one of his teachers tried to tell me they "couldn't" teach with-o it, that no student could learn math, science, language arts, social studies or anything else with-o the internet. By the third one I was laughing and asking why we have textbooks and how is it that I learned those things and even got a college degree - and hwo did they - because we sure didn't have the internet in every class or even every home?? They didn't like me and I got a LOT of protests that i was damaging Wiz with this, but I felt that it was needed to keep him grounded in reality ( I also took away the shows with violence even the Disney ones years before that and got even DOCTORS telling me I would make him a social outcast who had nothing to talk about with his peers if I didn't allow ALL the kids' shows. My reaction to that was that I didn't want my kid to have contact or interaction with anyone who can only talk about tv shows - and boy did THAT upset several medical doctors - and made our tdocs laugh and laugh)</p><p></p><p>So I probably am NOT the one to answer this question, Know what I mean??</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 440295, member: 1233"] I am constantly amazed that school thinks the things that JJJ's eeyore needs are extreme. WHY is it extreme or a problem for a kid or every kid to o work somewhere other than a desk? Or to provide a cave type place for a kid to go to if the alternative is bad behavior, rages, violence?? in my opinion some of these teachers need to spend a few days trapped in sensory overload and not allowed to do ANYTHING to make it better. I used to drag an old crib mattress (kept under my bed for sleepovers or for me to sleep on when a cousin came and used my bed) into my closet and pillows and then throw any/everything I could into the opening so I was barricaded (usually by my army of stuffed animals). I kept a flashlight and a handful of books back there and would spend hours in there. I have a LOT of vivid memories of childhood and the times I went in there were often to get away from gfgbro and the fighting that happened. Oddly enough I retreated more when he fought with my folks than when he fought with and/or attacked me. I can remember falling asleep in there one afternoon and my mother frantically digging all the animals out of the way because she had been looking for me for an hour. I was probably about three at the time and they were frantic because I didnt' come to dinner or answer when they called. I remember waking up to my mom shaking me and being all upset and thinking "why is she bothering me? I was all cozy and safe finally and got some sleep and what is her [I]problem[/I]? ( I have an odd memory inherited from my dad and his mother and these are as vivid to me as if I watched them on tv but felt what the people on tv felt.) After that my mom knew I would hole up back there and would sleep there, so she wasn't as upset until she checked it if I was not somewhere more easily found. For a while I switched to under my bed to be my cave, but it was too hard to read there. Picture books are too big to open up under a bed. Now if we had those bed risers, WOW! I could have done something with those on my bed! Anyway, I think if he needs it he needs it. It would have to be a lot for me to think it was too extreme. I was the one who took away permission for my child to use the internet - and every single one of his teachers tried to tell me they "couldn't" teach with-o it, that no student could learn math, science, language arts, social studies or anything else with-o the internet. By the third one I was laughing and asking why we have textbooks and how is it that I learned those things and even got a college degree - and hwo did they - because we sure didn't have the internet in every class or even every home?? They didn't like me and I got a LOT of protests that i was damaging Wiz with this, but I felt that it was needed to keep him grounded in reality ( I also took away the shows with violence even the Disney ones years before that and got even DOCTORS telling me I would make him a social outcast who had nothing to talk about with his peers if I didn't allow ALL the kids' shows. My reaction to that was that I didn't want my kid to have contact or interaction with anyone who can only talk about tv shows - and boy did THAT upset several medical doctors - and made our tdocs laugh and laugh) So I probably am NOT the one to answer this question, Know what I mean?? [/QUOTE]
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