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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 45266" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>We joined here at a time in difficult child 3's life/education when I had run out of ideas and was feeling powerless against the bullies institutionalised in the education system.</p><p></p><p>People here gave me the confidence and empowered me to make the changes we needed to make; to stand up for my son and recognise when things simply weren't working. This site has literally changed our lives, especially difficult child 3's, for the better.</p><p></p><p>And for me to say that, when people who've known me for years reckon I can handle just about anything and fight any battle - trust me, I was helpless with difficult child 3, compared to now.</p><p></p><p>When I look back and remember how much I was making excuses for the system, when I should have never made him put up with it for so long, I just shudder.</p><p></p><p>People ask me if it's really hard work, having difficult child 3 at home and having to supervise his schoolwork and support him with it as much as I do. Trust me, it's far easier than having my life turned upside down when he went to school and I never knew when the phone call would come, to go get him. Back then my life was not my own, I might be halfway into the city to see a specialist and have to turn back because the school were stuck with a hysterical, of feverish, difficult child 3. Or I'd be heading out the door and running late, and have to stop and collect difficult child 3 on the way, so I never had any work for him to do at those times, I had no chance to cater to his needs or arrange babysitting at such late notice. My life was totally disrupted, when he was attending mainstream.</p><p></p><p>Now I know where he is and what he's doing. We can plan our lives, I can say, "Tomorrow I have to see a doctor in the city; which subject study pages do you choose to work on while we're on the road?" and he does it.</p><p></p><p>And it's people on this site who gave me the courage to set this up.</p><p></p><p>Definitely life-changing!</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 45266, member: 1991"] We joined here at a time in difficult child 3's life/education when I had run out of ideas and was feeling powerless against the bullies institutionalised in the education system. People here gave me the confidence and empowered me to make the changes we needed to make; to stand up for my son and recognise when things simply weren't working. This site has literally changed our lives, especially difficult child 3's, for the better. And for me to say that, when people who've known me for years reckon I can handle just about anything and fight any battle - trust me, I was helpless with difficult child 3, compared to now. When I look back and remember how much I was making excuses for the system, when I should have never made him put up with it for so long, I just shudder. People ask me if it's really hard work, having difficult child 3 at home and having to supervise his schoolwork and support him with it as much as I do. Trust me, it's far easier than having my life turned upside down when he went to school and I never knew when the phone call would come, to go get him. Back then my life was not my own, I might be halfway into the city to see a specialist and have to turn back because the school were stuck with a hysterical, of feverish, difficult child 3. Or I'd be heading out the door and running late, and have to stop and collect difficult child 3 on the way, so I never had any work for him to do at those times, I had no chance to cater to his needs or arrange babysitting at such late notice. My life was totally disrupted, when he was attending mainstream. Now I know where he is and what he's doing. We can plan our lives, I can say, "Tomorrow I have to see a doctor in the city; which subject study pages do you choose to work on while we're on the road?" and he does it. And it's people on this site who gave me the courage to set this up. Definitely life-changing! Marg [/QUOTE]
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