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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 376647" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Things can seem pretty terrible and hopeless. The things your child is doing and feeling are totally confusing to both of you, and communication is not anywhere near ideal, or even clear sometimes.</p><p> </p><p>Wiz was a challenge at 5. He was in Montessori day care before Kdg. They told me he was incredibly advanced - he was my first kid and it seemed normal for a 5yo to be reading Animorphs chapter books and teaching himself division from a workbook in the middle of the night. We knew he was not going to fit into school easily. Too strong willed, too unwilling to behave well if bored. We could not afford private school in any way, shape or form. Some were more expensive than my college tuition for a year!</p><p> </p><p>He went to kdg in the morning and then did specials with the first graders all afternoon. Because he had amazing teachers it worked pretty well. He was still very difficult at home and was getting more and more violent with his little sister. Then in first grade he did 4 days of regular class and a full day of gifted education. The only good day he had was the day at gifted (another building, the youngest child ever put into gifted in that district) and more and more problems were showing up. </p><p> </p><p>The journey from there was not easy.</p><p> </p><p>Fast forward to today:</p><p> </p><p>Wiz has turned everything around and even has rebuilt his relationship with his siblings - esp with Jessie, the one he brutalized and traumatized the most. Wiz has his high school diploma, did an extra year to finish his vocational program and has a degree in C & C Machining (using big computers to make things out of big pieces of metal, as far as I can tell, lol). Just last week he started his freshman year in college. Wiz lives with my parents about 10 minutes from us, and things are just amazing!! He still takes medications, and still likes the way he functions on them. He uses the tools he has learned and there is NO reason he won't have a productive, happy, successful life.</p><p> </p><p>Things CAN turn around. It isn't easy and it takes a LOT of time and commitment. Stick with this site no matter what comes up. in my opinion this board is a MAJOR reason my son is now the amazing young man I knew he could be.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 376647, member: 1233"] Things can seem pretty terrible and hopeless. The things your child is doing and feeling are totally confusing to both of you, and communication is not anywhere near ideal, or even clear sometimes. Wiz was a challenge at 5. He was in Montessori day care before Kdg. They told me he was incredibly advanced - he was my first kid and it seemed normal for a 5yo to be reading Animorphs chapter books and teaching himself division from a workbook in the middle of the night. We knew he was not going to fit into school easily. Too strong willed, too unwilling to behave well if bored. We could not afford private school in any way, shape or form. Some were more expensive than my college tuition for a year! He went to kdg in the morning and then did specials with the first graders all afternoon. Because he had amazing teachers it worked pretty well. He was still very difficult at home and was getting more and more violent with his little sister. Then in first grade he did 4 days of regular class and a full day of gifted education. The only good day he had was the day at gifted (another building, the youngest child ever put into gifted in that district) and more and more problems were showing up. The journey from there was not easy. Fast forward to today: Wiz has turned everything around and even has rebuilt his relationship with his siblings - esp with Jessie, the one he brutalized and traumatized the most. Wiz has his high school diploma, did an extra year to finish his vocational program and has a degree in C & C Machining (using big computers to make things out of big pieces of metal, as far as I can tell, lol). Just last week he started his freshman year in college. Wiz lives with my parents about 10 minutes from us, and things are just amazing!! He still takes medications, and still likes the way he functions on them. He uses the tools he has learned and there is NO reason he won't have a productive, happy, successful life. Things CAN turn around. It isn't easy and it takes a LOT of time and commitment. Stick with this site no matter what comes up. in my opinion this board is a MAJOR reason my son is now the amazing young man I knew he could be. [/QUOTE]
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