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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 634744" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>I really don't know what to say. On other hand I'm a firm believer that we have to teach our kids to live in this world and that kids with social difficulties need more opportunities to train their skills than those without. On the other hand only thing one learns from constant failure in that area is that they don't fit. And often they learn harmful coping mechanisms and ways tyo try to interact, lose their self confidence and get traumatized. </p><p></p><p>While my kid's PTSD resulted also from one bigger incident, I'm sure it is greatly influenced also a decade of severe bullying at school. And while he does have some innate problems with social skills, his problems now as an adult are at least as much caused by all those negative peer relationships.</p><p></p><p>Mine was not only bullied at school, he had also other issues and he started running away from school already at kindergarten (in fact at his first day before noon) and he was a severe habitual truant at third grade and on. I have always been against home schooling and never would had considered it with my children before my son's school issues. And he was never officially home schooled but he basically went through school by self study and taking exams from mid school on and it was official when he was at High School and lived already few hundred miles away from his school. He had a day at school every six weeks, took exams and turned in some work, and that was the least stressful time at his school career ever. </p><p></p><p>If I could do it all again, I would have taken difficult child out of school when he was seven or eight at the latest. Maybe tried school again for mid school after focusing on social and peer skills in more structured environment till that. For him the sports were socially better for long time, though the incident that really hurt him happened also in there. But when they were younger, elementary school age, it was great. Doing things with other kids, but adults there all the time supervising and having zero tolerance for bullying. It was at mid school age, when they were left more alone to locker room etc. that things got worse for difficult child. And it maybe wouldn't had, had he not been so good at that sport. Jealousy can be a <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/2012/censored2.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":censored2:" title="censored2 :censored2:" data-shortname=":censored2:" />.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 634744, member: 14557"] I really don't know what to say. On other hand I'm a firm believer that we have to teach our kids to live in this world and that kids with social difficulties need more opportunities to train their skills than those without. On the other hand only thing one learns from constant failure in that area is that they don't fit. And often they learn harmful coping mechanisms and ways tyo try to interact, lose their self confidence and get traumatized. While my kid's PTSD resulted also from one bigger incident, I'm sure it is greatly influenced also a decade of severe bullying at school. And while he does have some innate problems with social skills, his problems now as an adult are at least as much caused by all those negative peer relationships. Mine was not only bullied at school, he had also other issues and he started running away from school already at kindergarten (in fact at his first day before noon) and he was a severe habitual truant at third grade and on. I have always been against home schooling and never would had considered it with my children before my son's school issues. And he was never officially home schooled but he basically went through school by self study and taking exams from mid school on and it was official when he was at High School and lived already few hundred miles away from his school. He had a day at school every six weeks, took exams and turned in some work, and that was the least stressful time at his school career ever. If I could do it all again, I would have taken difficult child out of school when he was seven or eight at the latest. Maybe tried school again for mid school after focusing on social and peer skills in more structured environment till that. For him the sports were socially better for long time, though the incident that really hurt him happened also in there. But when they were younger, elementary school age, it was great. Doing things with other kids, but adults there all the time supervising and having zero tolerance for bullying. It was at mid school age, when they were left more alone to locker room etc. that things got worse for difficult child. And it maybe wouldn't had, had he not been so good at that sport. Jealousy can be a :censored2:. [/QUOTE]
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