It's an "A" day again
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| Tue, 10-11-2005 - 7:11pm |
This board is such a great place to come and vent frustrations. We are having a high "A" day here today. That is our code (me and DH) for a day high in autism. lol.
I kept Cait home due to braces issues. She was very sore, very sensory and on verge of meltdown most of yesterday. So I sent the teacher an email asking for cait's homework assignments. I got a reply from the aide. The final paragraph was:
"I hope this information has been helpful. I am concerned that Caiti
seems to say that she doesn't know what to do, possibly as a way to not be
held accountable. She tries that quite often with me when I know she
knows better. This may be a defense mechanism of hers that has helped her
out of being held accountable in the past but it's time for a new
strategy."
Ok, I admit I took this personally. I sent an email back to the aide and one to the teacher (who I later found out isn't there this entire week) needless to say there have been a couple emails back and forth now at this point. Still waiting for a reply on the last one.
Then, Cait's been mid meltdown all day. I have been making her try to catch up on her work and teach her what she has missed. Plus get her started on a report she has to do. It has been a very very long day.
Mike came home with a heck of a note from school today. For the first day since the beginning of the year he had straight "I had troubles" on his daily log after almost all excellents and some goods. He was melting over lots of little things. Growling, head on his desk, refusing to work, crying, over every little thing.
Oh, and I have PTA tonight and I have to bring the kids with me and they will get watched by someone they don't know because dad won't be home. Grrrrrrr.
Calgon take me away.
Renee


((((((((Renee)))))))),
Don't you just hate it when they ignore the "Only one kid is allowed to have problems at a time" rule?
I'm sorry about the "A" day. Sending over some red wine and chocolate. Please be sure you're geting enought sleep.(yes I know, I know...)
-Paula
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((((Renee))))
I'm sorry you had a bad day. You know the last time Kyle was at the dentist they gave us a referal for an orthodontist. I said thanks but no thanks. There's no way he could deal with braces. He barely deals with brushing his teeth.
Sending you some extra calgon++++++
Samantha
No kidding, huh paula, THey broke the cardinal rule. What were they thinking!
Here is the good part, Mike may have had a horrible day at school but he has been stellar at home. I don't mind sharing the yucky stuff when I get my turn at the good stuff. I talked to his teacher yesterday and we laughed as I said, "So Sorry Annie, but it is My turn!"The only bad thing at home is that he is back into doing the backwards hugs and other little things like that where you know they are just going a bit off.
Samantha, Today I had to brush Cait's teeth for her. Her gums are all swollen and yucky because she hasn't been taking good enough care of her teeth so I had to. Man she did not like that because they are sore. I will be doing them a few times a day. When having kids I never thought I would be brushing the teeth of a child who is nearly my height with size B boobs.
Today is working up to be another "A" day. This morning it was the bus. Cait decided when the bus got here that her shoe was not on right and wouldn't get on to fix it, had to fix it at home. Well that is a 5-10 minute ordeal and no way the bus would wait. I went mean mom (must have been the accusatory email) and told her if she didn't get on the bus she would lose electronics until Sunday. Guess who has no electronics until Sunday. I was just mad as a hornet because the shoe suddenly bugged her when the bus arrived and she had just gone into the "do i have to take the bus" thing 10 minutes earlier so I felt like she was manipulating me. Probably not, maybe a little. We had worked out that I would drive her Monday and Friday and she would take the bus the rest of the week and she was ok with that.
Cait doesn't have the skills to stop arguing then and work up a plan to not get on the bus via shoe issue, so it wasn't true manipulation. At least I don't think her skills are that good. Normally she would have just kept arguing and all the little things would have bugged her and she would have used it. But I don't doubt that when the bus drove up and the shoe was bugging her just a bit she used it. Or it could just be that the shoe was bugging her and she was putting it off until after she gave the dog a treat which is when the bus pulled up. Who the heck knows. When someone learns to read her mind I will give them my first born child, literally.
Renee
(((((HUGS))))) wow! sounds like a "A" awful day to me!
hope today is better!
Betsy