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<blockquote data-quote="TerryJ2" data-source="post: 650935" data-attributes="member: 3419"><p>SuZir, I agree with-MWM... why are you even second-guessing yourself? I think you've done a great job.</p><p>Ache needs help and you have gotten it for him. You have observed and practiced and stayed true.</p><p>Having said that, I well know the feeling of second-guessing myself as we deal with-my son at 18. Should I have dropped everything and stayed home with him? Would it have mattered in the long run? I think he needed to interact with other kids so looking back on it, that was a good thing. So many other things just couldn't happen because husband and I weren't on the same page. Heck, even the <em>doctors</em> weren't on the same page.</p><p>To make myself feel better, I think back to the time that a district supervisor stopped by kindergarten and watched my son's class, and she commented to another teacher, "Look at that kid over there. There is something seriously wrong with him."</p><p>I heard it a month later, through a different teacher. Oh, how I wished I could find out who the supervisor was and what exactly she "saw." What she "knew."</p><p>And that she spotted it instantly when she looked at the class as a whole. (The only thing I know for sure was that he was not participating at all in a musical directive they were doing. No clapping. No swaying. No singing. No foot tapping. Sat. And. Stared.</p><p>But would it really have changed anything? Would it have added anything more than one more spec needs class, or earlier medications, or really changed his neurological makeup?</p><p>It would have helped. But totally changed everything? No.</p><p>We do what we do with the information we have at the time.</p><p>Plus, we have to deal with our own stressors, our own abilities to cope and teach and thrive. Or at least, survive.</p><p></p><p>I hear you. <em>"We did what we did and we can't know what would had happened if we had done differently."</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TerryJ2, post: 650935, member: 3419"] SuZir, I agree with-MWM... why are you even second-guessing yourself? I think you've done a great job. Ache needs help and you have gotten it for him. You have observed and practiced and stayed true. Having said that, I well know the feeling of second-guessing myself as we deal with-my son at 18. Should I have dropped everything and stayed home with him? Would it have mattered in the long run? I think he needed to interact with other kids so looking back on it, that was a good thing. So many other things just couldn't happen because husband and I weren't on the same page. Heck, even the [I]doctors[/I] weren't on the same page. To make myself feel better, I think back to the time that a district supervisor stopped by kindergarten and watched my son's class, and she commented to another teacher, "Look at that kid over there. There is something seriously wrong with him." I heard it a month later, through a different teacher. Oh, how I wished I could find out who the supervisor was and what exactly she "saw." What she "knew." And that she spotted it instantly when she looked at the class as a whole. (The only thing I know for sure was that he was not participating at all in a musical directive they were doing. No clapping. No swaying. No singing. No foot tapping. Sat. And. Stared. But would it really have changed anything? Would it have added anything more than one more spec needs class, or earlier medications, or really changed his neurological makeup? It would have helped. But totally changed everything? No. We do what we do with the information we have at the time. Plus, we have to deal with our own stressors, our own abilities to cope and teach and thrive. Or at least, survive. I hear you. [I]"We did what we did and we can't know what would had happened if we had done differently."[/I] [/QUOTE]
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