Category Archives: The Kiddo

Layers Like an Onion

There is this point in evaluating and getting help for you kid when you second guess yourself so much about what is normal, and what needs assistance, and what is just a really smart five year old, that you feel like you’ve completely lost track of what is “normal”.  I’ve seen other bloggers go through [...]
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Heart

Families are just a collection of relationships.  They require work sometimes to stay healthy. ——————————————————————- I worry about M, about her ability to make friends, to connect with kids her own age.  She spends a lot of time outside of the house away from us because of my working full time, so we tend to [...]
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Choices

I just filled out the school choice form (online of course) for M.  I think maybe I’ll stop having panic attacks now. This is so very far away from the K-12 school I went to until fourth grade.  Not to mention, I was home schooled for Kindergarten so I have absolutely no idea how it [...]
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I know we don’t talk much.

I know I’m a bad blogger who doesn’t do enough commenting elsewhere, but I need some crowd sourcing help. M, it appears, will NOT clean her room.  She says she is cleaning, but she plays.  She is actively lying to our face about what she is doing.  She tries to stall, asking for something specific [...]
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