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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 538062" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>I HATE when people start worrying about high school when the kid is 4. in my opinion it is ridiculous. It seems to be a major pitfall of people working with kids with problems. in my opinion it greatly limits a child's potential if people are planning for him to have certain problems or be unable to function ten-twenty years later. they stop challenging the child and in my opinion it is nuts. I don't even like it when they tried to tell me that something done now would be an insurmountable problem next year - esp when it is NOT something they will be dealing with the next year. Wiz went to a school through grade 2 that had combined 2nd and 3rd grade classes - all of them but math and language arts were combined. They told me that Wiz could not do the 3rd gr work in those subjects (even though he was already working on the 4th grade level math and 6-7 th gr language arts) because 'we won't have anything for him to do next year if he does the work this year'.</p><p></p><p>Let the Occupational Therapist (OT) know that she needs to focus on NOW, nd what his problems/challenges are NOW, and how to help him NOW, and to let what he needs in high school be taken care of when he is in high school. </p><p></p><p>NONE of us has a crystal ball that gives a totally accurate vision of tomorrow, much less 10 years from now. Only idiots think they can make those predictions, esp about our kids. Few of them truly understand the stubborn determination that a difficult child can show whne the difficult child wants soemthing. the chllenge is to channel that determination into productive goals.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 538062, member: 1233"] I HATE when people start worrying about high school when the kid is 4. in my opinion it is ridiculous. It seems to be a major pitfall of people working with kids with problems. in my opinion it greatly limits a child's potential if people are planning for him to have certain problems or be unable to function ten-twenty years later. they stop challenging the child and in my opinion it is nuts. I don't even like it when they tried to tell me that something done now would be an insurmountable problem next year - esp when it is NOT something they will be dealing with the next year. Wiz went to a school through grade 2 that had combined 2nd and 3rd grade classes - all of them but math and language arts were combined. They told me that Wiz could not do the 3rd gr work in those subjects (even though he was already working on the 4th grade level math and 6-7 th gr language arts) because 'we won't have anything for him to do next year if he does the work this year'. Let the Occupational Therapist (OT) know that she needs to focus on NOW, nd what his problems/challenges are NOW, and how to help him NOW, and to let what he needs in high school be taken care of when he is in high school. NONE of us has a crystal ball that gives a totally accurate vision of tomorrow, much less 10 years from now. Only idiots think they can make those predictions, esp about our kids. Few of them truly understand the stubborn determination that a difficult child can show whne the difficult child wants soemthing. the chllenge is to channel that determination into productive goals. [/QUOTE]
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