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<blockquote data-quote="doll" data-source="post: 460372" data-attributes="member: 12801"><p><span style="font-family: 'fixedsys'"><span style="font-size: 15px">InsaneCdn: This is definitely something to consider. It does seem like when I have him going to bed around the same time and waking up around the same time, the day isn't a total disaster. It's the nights I have to fight him to sleep and the next day when I have to drag him out of bed that it's like nuclear meltdown. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'fixedsys'">keista: Haha! Not crazy (although I'm beginning to wonder if maybe .. possibly .. nah! Just brave!) It just got to the point that despite the fact that he's charming and the teachers love him, his last teacher was so young and so inexperienced that she pretty much made it sound like he's unmanageable in class and it will only get worse. The only time she was able to get him to sit in a seat and do the work is if she sat next to him. I noticed that at home, if I left him to do his homework by himself at the table, he'd end up doing something else or just staring off into space but if I sat next to him, as hard as it was to get him to focus and not fight me, he got it done and correctly. He knew the answers to most things, he just needed someone there to push him to do it. That's why homeschooling has been the best option so far. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'fixedsys'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'fixedsys'">I really don't know why he wandered out of the classroom or what made him think it was OK. We'd taught him about stranger danger too but he just doesn't seem to be able to pick up on cues from the other students in class that are sitting in their seat and staying in the room. It was actually another student that noticed he was missing and not the teacher. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'fixedsys'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'fixedsys'">I think that he's definitely an antsy pantsy about getting out and exploring the world and homeschooling does limit some of that but we make sure that he has time to play and we take him out into nature daily and let him explore. He likes to go to the Metro Parks here and go for walks with me and my mom. He gets to look at (not collect and bring home because mommy would have a cow) bugs and also leafs and rocks and next week he starts skating lessons and after that youth hockey so I am hoping he'll get more of that age level interaction because he is sorely lacking in that since first grade ended. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'fixedsys'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'fixedsys'">The more and more I am reading the responses about the autism, the more and more I am going to press the P-DR about looking into this! Thank you for your response. I'm glad to know I'm not alone. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'fixedsys'"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="doll, post: 460372, member: 12801"] [FONT=fixedsys][SIZE=4]InsaneCdn: This is definitely something to consider. It does seem like when I have him going to bed around the same time and waking up around the same time, the day isn't a total disaster. It's the nights I have to fight him to sleep and the next day when I have to drag him out of bed that it's like nuclear meltdown. [/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=4][FONT=fixedsys]keista: Haha! Not crazy (although I'm beginning to wonder if maybe .. possibly .. nah! Just brave!) It just got to the point that despite the fact that he's charming and the teachers love him, his last teacher was so young and so inexperienced that she pretty much made it sound like he's unmanageable in class and it will only get worse. The only time she was able to get him to sit in a seat and do the work is if she sat next to him. I noticed that at home, if I left him to do his homework by himself at the table, he'd end up doing something else or just staring off into space but if I sat next to him, as hard as it was to get him to focus and not fight me, he got it done and correctly. He knew the answers to most things, he just needed someone there to push him to do it. That's why homeschooling has been the best option so far. I really don't know why he wandered out of the classroom or what made him think it was OK. We'd taught him about stranger danger too but he just doesn't seem to be able to pick up on cues from the other students in class that are sitting in their seat and staying in the room. It was actually another student that noticed he was missing and not the teacher. I think that he's definitely an antsy pantsy about getting out and exploring the world and homeschooling does limit some of that but we make sure that he has time to play and we take him out into nature daily and let him explore. He likes to go to the Metro Parks here and go for walks with me and my mom. He gets to look at (not collect and bring home because mommy would have a cow) bugs and also leafs and rocks and next week he starts skating lessons and after that youth hockey so I am hoping he'll get more of that age level interaction because he is sorely lacking in that since first grade ended. The more and more I am reading the responses about the autism, the more and more I am going to press the P-DR about looking into this! Thank you for your response. I'm glad to know I'm not alone. [/FONT][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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